Murphy Sarah Anne
The Ohio State University, 225 Veterinary Medicine Academic Building, 1900 Coffey Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 Apr;94(2):151-8.
The author studied health information available for veterinary consumers both in print and online.
WorldCat was searched using a list of fifty-three Library of Congress subject headings relevant to veterinary consumer health to identify print resources for review. Identified items were then collected and assessed for authority, comprehensiveness of coverage, validity, and other criteria outlined by Rees. An in-depth assessment of the information available for feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) and canine congestive heart failure (CHF) was then conducted to examine the availability and quality of information available for specific diseases and disorders. A reading grade level was assigned for each passage using the Flesch-Kincaid formula in the Readability Statistics feature in Microsoft Word.
RESULTS/DISCUSSION: A total of 187 books and 7 Websites were identified and evaluated. More than half of the passages relating to FLUTD and CHF were written above an 11th-grade reading level. A limited quantity of quality, in-depth resources that address specific diseases and disorders and are written at an appropriate reading level for consumers is available.
The library's role is to facilitate access to the limited number of quality consumer health resources that are available to veterinary consumers.
作者研究了可供兽医消费者使用的印刷版和在线健康信息。
使用与兽医消费者健康相关的53个美国国会图书馆主题词列表在WorldCat中进行搜索，以识别可供审查的印刷资源。然后收集已识别的项目，并根据里斯概述的权威性、覆盖范围的全面性、有效性和其他标准进行评估。随后对猫下泌尿道疾病（FLUTD）和犬充血性心力衰竭（CHF）的可用信息进行了深入评估，以检查特定疾病和病症的可用信息的可用性和质量。使用Microsoft Word中“可读性统计”功能的弗莱施-金凯德公式为每篇文章指定阅读年级水平。
结果/讨论：共识别并评估了187本书籍和7个网站。与FLUTD和CHF相关的文章中，超过一半的阅读水平高于11年级。针对特定疾病和病症且以适合消费者的阅读水平撰写的高质量、深入的资源数量有限。
图书馆的作用是促进兽医消费者获取有限数量的优质消费者健康资源。
