Haddow Gaby, Watts Robin
WA Centre for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Curtin University of Technology, School of Nursing & Midwifery.
Collegian. 2003 Apr;10(2):7-12. doi: 10.1016/s1322-7696(08)60048-7.
A small study was conducted to evaluate the quality of information on the Internet about caring for a child with fever in order to alert nurses to the variable nature of information on the Internet for their own professional use and to provide advice to their patients.
Three search engines were used to locate web sites with information about the management of fever. A total of 22 web sites were assessed after duplicate and irrelevant web sites were excluded from the analysis. Each site was evaluated against the criteria: accuracy; currency; source; original source; and disclosure. The web sites were also examined for warnings against potentially dangerous treatments.
The quality of information on the Internet about the management of fever varied greatly, but was generally poor. Accuracy was assessed using five recommendations for managing fever and the proportion of web sites that included these recommendations ranged from 5% to 64%. Less than two-thirds of the sites recorded their creation or review dates. A third of the web sites did not carry warnings about potentially dangerous treatments.
This study's findings highlight the poor quality of health information on the Internet and indicate factors to consider when using the Internet as an information source. Nurses' awareness of the variable quality of information on the Internet will assist them to identify quality information for their own professional practice and knowledge on which to base advice to patients.
开展一项小型研究，以评估互联网上有关儿童发热护理的信息质量，从而提醒护士注意互联网信息的多变性，供其专业使用，并为患者提供建议。
使用三个搜索引擎查找有关发热管理的信息网站。在排除重复和不相关网站后，共评估了22个网站。每个网站根据以下标准进行评估：准确性、时效性、来源、原始来源和披露情况。还检查这些网站是否有针对潜在危险治疗的警告。
互联网上有关发热管理的信息质量差异很大，但总体较差。使用五项发热管理建议评估准确性，包含这些建议的网站比例从5%到64%不等。不到三分之二的网站记录了创建或审核日期。三分之一的网站没有关于潜在危险治疗的警告。
本研究结果凸显了互联网上健康信息质量较差，并指出了将互联网用作信息来源时需考虑的因素。护士对互联网信息质量多变性的认识将有助于他们为自己的专业实践识别高质量信息，并为向患者提供建议奠定知识基础。
