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Notions of Reliability:Considering the Importance of Difference in Guiding Patients to Health Care Web Sites
OBJECTIVES: This article analyzes the efforts of three organizations to provide a standard that guides Internet users to reliable health care sites. METHODS: Comparison of health Internet sites, interviews and document studies. RESULTS: In comparing these approaches, three different constructions of reliability are identified. Conclusions: The resulting possibilities and restrictions of these constructions for users that are searching for health information on the Internet are revealed.
Keywords: Internet user, health care, reliability, Internet health sites, qualitative research methods
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerDesign and Introduction of an Electronic Patient Record: How to Involve Users
OBJECTIVES: Two forms of participatory design (PD) management-dominated and end-users focused are described in the design and introduction of an electronic patient record (EPR) for a mental health care centre. METHODS: Qualitative research methods were used to achieve a fine-grained insight into the EPR development process and its impacts...
Keywords: User-involvement, participatory design (PD), health care, implementation, electronic patient record (EPR)
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerHealth Promotion in the Workplace The Merging of the Paradigms
PURPOSE: To synthesize the lessons from both occupational health and health promotion, to improve workplace health. APPROACH: This article briefly outlines the evolution in defining and understanding health promotion as well as current thinking in occupational health and safety...
Keywords: health promotion, occupational health, environmental health, health care
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerEvaluating Personal Health Care and Health Promotion Web Sites
OBJECTIVE: An exemplary sample of web sites relevant to personal health care and health promotion was chosen and evaluated. METHODS: Both quantitative and qualitative data were converged to assess and rank the sites on nine attributes. RESULTS: The sites provided a definitive range of value and variety of presentations, health care and health promotion information, and services covering the virtual choices currently available to users of the Internet. CONCLUSION: Discussion focused on methodological approaches and issues of web site evaluation serving the public interest, health care, and health promotion.
Keywords: health care, health promotion, methods, web site evaluation
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerAn Inventory of Evaluation Studies of Information Technology in Health Care Trends in Evaluation Research 1982-2002
OBJECTIVES: During the last years the significance of evaluation studies as well as the interest in adequate methods and approaches for evaluation has grown in medical informatics...
Keywords: evaluation studies, health and medical informatics, technology assessment, information technology, health care, Health information systems, inventory, Review
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerAssessing the State of Population Health by Age-adjusted Life Expectancies
OBJECTIVES: A gain in life expectancy of a population is commonly interpreted as an effect of improved health care...
Keywords: Age at death, Bayes’ Theorem, fertility, health care, life expectancy, life tables, Migration, population ageing, state of health of populations
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer