Krones C J, Ruhl K M, Stumpf M, Klinge U, Schumpelick V
Chirurgische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen.
Chirurg. 2003 Aug;74(8):762-7. doi: 10.1007/s00104-003-0669-8.
The Internet offers an increasing amount of medical information, but its value for surgical patients is doubtful.
Using "inguinal hernia" as catchword, an amateur search was imitated on a German-speaking metasearch machine. One hundred fifty sites, standardized regarding quality and efficiency,were evaluated.
In summary, more than 50% of the sites revealed poor results. Technical appearance, quality of content, and target grouping show big deficiencies. The applicable laws were mostly not respected. The ranking lists of the search machines do not reflect the quality of the sites.
Patients need competent guides to process surgical information from the Internet. The establishment of a specialized institution to control surgical websites according to quality, content, and legality seems to be needed.
互联网提供的医学信息越来越多，但其对手术患者的价值令人怀疑。
以“腹股沟疝”为关键词，在一个德语元搜索引擎上模拟了一次业余搜索。对150个在质量和效率方面进行了标准化处理的网站进行了评估。
总体而言，超过50%的网站结果不佳。技术外观、内容质量和目标分组存在很大缺陷。适用法律大多未得到遵守。搜索引擎的排名列表并不能反映网站的质量。
患者需要有能力的指导者来处理来自互联网的手术信息。似乎有必要设立一个专门机构，根据质量、内容和合法性对手术相关网站进行管控。
