Teresa Martin-Carreras, Charles E. Kahn,
... can be difficult for a layperson to understand. MedlinePlus, a patient-oriented reference from the National Library ... to help patients understand radiology reports. We compared MedlinePlus, RadLex, and the PORTER (Patient-Oriented Radiology Reporter) ... definitions. Methods We tallied how frequently terms from MedlinePlus (975 concepts), RadLex (46,433 concepts), and PORTER ( ... health system. We also compared the readability of MedlinePlus, RadLex, and PORTER definitions. Results The mean number ... matched per radiology report was 3.8 for MedlinePlus, 40.7 for RadLex, and 42.0 for ...
Tópico(s): Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
2017 - Elsevier BV | Journal of the American College of Radiology
Peter G. Volsky, Cristina Baldassari, Sirisha L. Mushti, Craig S. Derkay,
... metrics of readability. Wikipedia, eMedicine, and NLM/NIH MedlinePlus were the most referenced sources. For content accuracy, eMedicine scored highest (84%; p < 0.05) over MedlinePlus (49%) and Wikipedia (46%). The highest incidence of ... 19; p < 0.05). Errors were similar between MedlinePlus and both eMedicine and Wikipedia. On ratings for ... Flesch–Kinkaid Reading Level and Flesch Reading Ease, MedlinePlus was the most user-friendly (4.3 ± 0. ... topics for which articles were not available on MedlinePlus. Knowledge of the quality of available information on ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2012 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Cynthia A. Olney, Lucille Hansen, Ann Vickman, Sara Reibman, Frederick B. Wood, Elliot R. Siegel,
... Tutor Project, in which high school students promote MedlinePlus in their high schools and communities. MedlinePlus and its companion site, MedlinePlus en espanol, are consumer health information websites maintained ... librarian, taught their peers and faculty members about MedlinePlus in the first year of the project. The ... were published in 2005 [6]. Peer tutors promote MedlinePlus to their peers and teachers through class demonstrations, ... Results showed that 66% of respondents reported using MedlinePlus and 52% had referred the resource to others [ ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2011 - University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
Michaël R. Laurent, T. J. Vickers,
... general Internet search engines by entering keywords from MedlinePlus, NHS Direct Online, and the National Organization of ... emerging health concerns, and how it compares to MedlinePlus. Measurements: Cumulative incidence and average position of Wikipedia® ... page view statistics for selected Wikipedia articles and MedlinePlus pages. Results: Wikipedia ranked among the first ten ... of search engines and keywords tested. Wikipedia surpassed MedlinePlus and NHS Direct Online (except for queries from ... concerns. Wikipedia articles were viewed more often than MedlinePlus Topic (p = 0.001) but for MedlinePlus Encyclopedia ...
Tópico(s): Misinformation and Its Impacts
2009 - Oxford University Press | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Roger D. Smalligan, Emily O. Campbell, Hassan M. Ismail,
... free of commercial bias as the Web site MedlinePlus.gov. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the MedlinePlus.gov site as perceived by patients who were ... look up medical information, only 43% had used MedlinePlus.gov. Of those who had used the site, ... and 94% said the information they found at MedlinePlus.gov would help them make better health decisions.Patients who used the MedlinePlus.gov site at the recommendation of their physician ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare Systems and Technology
2008 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Investigative Medicine
Emily Coberly, Suzanne Austin Boren, Mayank Mittal, Justin Davis, Caryn Scoville, Rebecca Chitima-Matsiga, Bin Ge, Adam Cullina, Robert Logan, William C. Steinmann, Robert H. Hodge,
... compliance to visit health information sites such as MedlinePlus is limited.Compare the efficacy of paper (pHIP) ... evaluate patient satisfaction with the HIP process and MedlinePlus information; assess reasons for noncompliance to HIPs.Of ... an intermediate website that provided up to five MedlinePlus links for physician-selected HIP conditions. Patients accessing ... given for not accessing the websites.Delivery of MedlinePlus-based HIPs in clinic is more effective using ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare Systems and Technology
2013 - British Computer Society | Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics
Debra Warner, Cynthia A. Olney, Fred B. Wood, Lucille Hansen, Virginia M. Bowden,
The objective was to introduce the MedlinePlus Website to the predominantly Hispanic residents of the Lower Rio Grande Valley region of Texas by partnering with a health professions magnet ... and community outreach, and pre- and posttests of MedlinePlus training sessions. Evaluation methods included Web statistics; end- ... during the project year. Students and faculty found MedlinePlus to be a useful resource. Faculty and librarians developed new or revised teaching methods incorporating MedlinePlus. The project enhanced the role of school librarians ...
Tópico(s): Library Science and Administration
2005 - University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
Christian Lopez Ramos, Jonathan Williams, Yanik J. Bababekov, David C. Chang, Bob S. Carter, Pamela S. Jones,
... the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and MedlinePlus. Articles on neurosurgical conditions and treatments listed on both the AANS site and MedlinePlus were analyzed. Two reviewers scored articles using 2 ... were evaluated from the AANS (n = 61) and MedlinePlus (n = 77). The median CCI score for MedlinePlus and AANS articles was 68.9 (interquartile range [ ...
Tópico(s): Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
2019 - Elsevier BV | World Neurosurgery
Damián Borbolla, Guilherme Del Fiol, Vanina Taliercio, Carlos Otero, Fernando Campos, Marcela Martínez, Daniel Luna, Fernán Gonzalez Bernaldo de Quiros,
... use of context aware information in Spanish from MedlinePlus embedded in a Patient Portal. Personalized information can ... for themselves and communicate with providers. To integrate MedlinePlus information in our institutional PHR we used the ... After analysing one year of use, patients accessed MedlinePlus information in Spanish in a similar rate to ...
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2014 - IOS Press | Studies in health technology and informatics
... dynamic process of people constructing mental models of MedlinePlus, a medical information web space, during their interaction ... participated in the study. Their mental models of MedlinePlus were measured by a concept listing protocol and ... revealed that participants constructed their mental models of MedlinePlus based on the schemas that they have of ...
Tópico(s): Cognitive Science and Mapping
2013 - Elsevier BV | Library & Information Science Research
Melissa L. McCarthy, Ru Ding, Nancy K. Roderer, Donald M. Steinwachs, Melinda J. Ortmann, Julius Pham, Edward S. Bessman, Gabor D. Kelen, Walter Atha, Rodica Retezar, Sara C. Bessman, Scott L. Zeger,
... information or services); (2) consumer drug information from MedlinePlus (MedlinePlus prescription information or services); or (3) both services ... information or services); (2) consumer drug information from MedlinePlus (MedlinePlus prescription information or services); or (3) both services ...
Tópico(s): Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
2013 - Elsevier BV | Annals of Emergency Medicine
... task complexity on people's mental models of MedlinePlus, an information-rich web space providing consumer health ... tasks. After the search session, subjects' perceptions of MedlinePlus were elicited using a concept listing protocol where subjects listed concepts concerning MedlinePlus in the order each concept occurred to them. ...
Tópico(s): Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
2011 - Elsevier BV | Information Processing & Management
Suad Ghaddar, Melissa A. Valerio, Carolyn García, Lucy Hansen,
... to a credible source of online health information, MedlinePlus ® , is associated with higher levels of health literacy. ... on health‐information‐seeking behavior and exposure to MedlinePlus ® were collected. Health literacy was assessed by eHEALS ... who completed the survey, 56% had heard of MedlinePlus ® , 52% had adequate levels of health literacy as ... efficacy and seeking health information online. Exposure to MedlinePlus ® was associated with higher eHealth literacy scores (p < . ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2011 - Wiley | Journal of School Health
Emily Coberly, Suzanne Austin Boren, Justin Davis, Amanda L McConnell, Rebecca Chitima-Matsiga, Bin Ge, Robert Logan, William C. Steinmann, Robert H. Hodge,
... in patient health information seeking, increased awareness of MedlinePlus, and increased patient interest when receiving an information ... were specifically tailored with physician-selected links to MedlinePlus. The authors hypothesized that: (1) a physician-directed, ... specific, email information prescription (using links to the MedlinePlus website) would be favorably evaluated by patients; and ( ... intervention patients would be more likely to use MedlinePlus when compared to a control group. The authors ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2010 - University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
... s mental models of an information‐rich space, MedlinePlus, after they interacted with the system for 5 ... in this short period of time, participants perceived MedlinePlus from many different aspects in relation to four ... a strategy more aligned to the capabilities of MedlinePlus to solve a hypothetical task; the rest planned ... strategies. The composition of participants' mental models of MedlinePlus was consistent with that of their models of ...
Tópico(s): Team Dynamics and Performance
2010 - Wiley | Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Naomi Miller, Rebecca J. Tyler, Joyce Backus,
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) MedlinePlus® is a high-quality gateway to consumer health information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other authoritative organizations. For decades, ... distributing health information to health professionals. In creating MedlinePlus, NLM uses years of accumulated expertise and technical ... Web site. This article describes the development of MedlinePlus - its quality control processes, the integration of NLM ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2004 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Library trends
Carlos Luis Sanchez Bocanegra, José Luis Sevillano, Carlos Rizo-Maestre, A Balcells, Luis Fernández-Luque,
... health consumers to reputable health educational websites from MedlinePlus for a given health video from YouTube. The ... ontology) were used to recommend health websites from MedlinePlus. A total of 26 healths professionals participated in ... The relevance of the recommended health websites from MedlinePlus to the videos was measured using information retrieval ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2017 - BioMed Central | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Danny T Y Wu, David A. Hanauer, Qiaozhu Mei, P. Clark, Lawrence C. An, Joshua Proulx, Qing Zeng, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Kevyn Collins‐Thompson, Kai Zheng,
... corpora: (1) all 955 Health Topics articles from MedlinePlus and (2) a random sample of 100 000 ... difficult to read, followed by trial descriptions and MedlinePlus Health Topics articles. Results Trial descriptions have the ... English dictionary. In comparison, average sentence length of MedlinePlus Health Topics articles is 61% shorter, vocabulary size ...
Tópico(s): Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
2015 - Oxford University Press | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Lauren Stossel, Nora Segar, Peter Gliatto, Robert Fallar, Reena Karani,
... NLM). We included PEMs from Micromedex, EBSCO, and MedlinePlus. Micromedex and EBSCO supply PEMs to Meditech, a popular EHR supplier in the US. MedlinePlus supplies the NLM. These PEM databases have high ... 8th grade level. The average reading level for MedlinePlus, EBSCO, and Micromedex PEMs was 10.2 (1. ...
Tópico(s): Text Readability and Simplification
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of General Internal Medicine
Ma Wei, Stephanie Narva Dennis, S. Lanka, N Miller, John Potvin,
The National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus Connect service extends the reach of the consumer health website MedlinePlus.gov to deliver relevant information to patients and providers via health ...
Tópico(s): Health Sciences Research and Education
2012 - IEEE Computer Society | IT Professional
... kiosk and Web site was developed for 48 MedlinePlus((R)) tutorials. This learning experience serves Davidson County, ... the project is introducing hundreds of patients to MedlinePlus.
Tópico(s): Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Brian Hilligoss, Christie Silbajoris,
... sites that links seamlessly with health information on MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer health ... connect their own collections of health services with MedlinePlus. This paper addresses the seven major challenges faced ...
Tópico(s): Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Mechelle Sanders, Kate Bringley, Marie Thomas, Michele Boyd, Subrina Farah, Kevin Fiscella,
... accurate health information at the point of care. MedlinePlus in particular is underutilized.The authors conducted a multimodal intervention to promote the use of MedlinePlus at a federally qualified health center. We provided MedlinePlus training to clinicians and patients through group and ... assess changes in the use and recognition of MedlinePlus at the point of care. We used quantitative ... equipment and staff. Group training improved use of MedlinePlus by clinicians and staff. One-on-one training ...
Tópico(s): Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
2018 - University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
Peggy Richwine, Elaine N. Skopelja, Lauren Rider,
Abstract MedlinePlus http://www.medlineplus.gov, the gold standard for Internet-based consumer health information, is a product of the National Library of Medicine. Go Local is a feature on every MedlinePlus health topic page. Health topics on MedlinePlus describe a condition, how it is diagnosed, options ... host their own system linking to and from MedlinePlus or can be on the system hosted by ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2006 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Carol G. Jenkins, Joanne Gard Marshall, Diana McDuffee,
... sites that link seamlessly with health information on MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine's Web site. ... their own collections of health services information with MedlinePlus. This is the first part of a two- ...
Tópico(s): Medical Coding and Health Information
2004 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Christie Silbajoris, Diana McDuffee, Cynthia A. Olney,
... local health resources to topical health information on MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer health ... the first project to connect local resources with MedlinePlus in the “Go Local” initiative. As such, NC ...
Tópico(s): Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Medical Reference Services Quarterly
Talicia Tarver, Dixie A. Jones, Mararia Adams, A. Fernández García,
... a new patient portal with contextual links to MedlinePlus. Through partnerships with information technology personnel and LSU ... MyChart and access reliable consumer health information via MedlinePlus Connect. Although most patients were not interested in ... interest in using MyChart. The contextual information in MedlinePlus Connect worked well for most topics. The institutional ...
Tópico(s): Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Medical Reference Services Quarterly
Karen McMullen, Rozalynd McConnaughy, Ruth Riley,
... screen information kiosks equipment in each clinic, conducted MedlinePlus training sessions with clinic staff, and added links to MedlinePlus on the patient education area of the clinics' ... As a result, the free medical clinics incorporated MedlinePlus into their patient education classes or use the ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
Alex Gavino, Fiona Callaghan, P. Fontelo, Lincoln Sheets,
Summary Background: Increased usage of MedlinePlus by Spanish-speakers was observed after introduction of MedlinePlus in Spanish. This probably reflects increased usage of MEDLINE and PubMed by ... and other socioeconomic factors on PubMed MEDLINE and MedlinePlus access by international users. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed server pageviews of PubMed and MedlinePlus from various periods of time, and analyzed them ... be positively associated with pageviews of PubMed and MedlinePlus in countries with high literacy rates. Spanish was ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare Systems and Technology
2013 - Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany) | Applied Clinical Informatics
Ivan Portillo, Catherine Johnson, Scott Johnson,
... appeared most frequently were WebMD, Mayo Clinic, Healthline, MedlinePlus, and Medical News Today, respectively. All websites, except ... HONcode certification. Based on DISCERN and CRAAP scores, MedlinePlus was found to be the most reliable health ...
Tópico(s): Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Medical Reference Services Quarterly