An international database on medical education: the European Medical School Information System (EMSIS)G Eysenbach
Med Educ 32:231-8. 1998
..Users may perform simple queries, for example by country or city, or may perform more complex searches such as 'show all medical schools teaching gynaecology in the fourth year'...
- Empirical studies assessing the quality of health information for consumers on the world wide web: a systematic review
Gunther Eysenbach
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto General Hospital, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4
JAMA 287:2691-700. 2002
..The quality of consumer health information on the World Wide Web is an important issue for medicine, but to date no systematic and comprehensive synthesis of the methods and evidence has been performed...
How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviewsGunther Eysenbach
Unit for Cybermedicine and eHealth, Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
BMJ 324:573-7. 2002
..To describe techniques for retrieval and appraisal used by consumers when they search for health information on the internet...
- Evidence-based patient choice and consumer health informatics in the Internet age
G Eysenbach
Research Unit for Cybermedicine and eHealth Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
J Med Internet Res 3:E19. 2001
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- Quality management, certification and rating of health information on the Net with MedCERTAIN: using a medPICS/RDF/XML metadata structure for implementing eHealth ethics and creating trust globally
G Eysenbach
Research Unit for Cybermedicine and eHealth Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
J Med Internet Res 2:2E1. 2000
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- Report of a case of cyberplagiarism--and reflections on detecting and preventing academic misconduct using the Internet
G Eysenbach
University of Heidelberg, Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, Unit for Cybermedicine, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
J Med Internet Res 2:E4. 2000
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- Towards ethical guidelines for dealing with unsolicited patient emails and giving teleadvice in the absence of a pre-existing patient-physician relationship systematic review and expert survey
G Eysenbach
University of Heidelberg, Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, Unit for Cybermedicine, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
J Med Internet Res 2:E1. 2000
..It is unclear whether these types of interactions constitute medical practice, and whether physicians have the ethical obligation to respond to unsolicited patient emails...
- Online prescribing of sildanefil (Viagra) on the world wide web
G Eysenbach
University of Heidelberg, Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, Unit for Cybermedicine, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
J Med Internet Res 1:E10. 1999
..Little is known about the structure and "quality" of these "virtual pharmacies" in terms of how responsibly "online-prescriptions" are actually issued...
- Evaluation of the usefulness of Internet searches to identify unpublished clinical trials for systematic reviews
G Eysenbach
Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Med Inform Internet Med 26:203-18. 2001
..We tried to establish whether searches on the World Wide Web (WWW) are useful to identify additional unpublished and ongoing clinical trials...
- A framework for improving the quality of health information on the world-wide-web and bettering public (e-)health: the MedCERTAIN approach
G Eysenbach
Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Stud Health Technol Inform 84:1450-4. 2001
..The paper explains the general conceptual framework of the model and presents preliminary experiences including results from an expert consensus meeting, where the framework was discussed...
- EU-project medCERTAIN: Certification and Rating of Trustworthy and Assessed Health Information on the Net
G Eysenbach
MedCERTAIN Project Consortium, Dept of Clinical Social Medicine, University Heidelberg, Bergheimerstr 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Stud Health Technol Inform 77:279-83. 2000
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- Responses to unsolicited patient e-mail requests for medical advice on the World Wide Web
G Eysenbach
Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany
JAMA 280:1333-5. 1998
..The Internet is increasingly used by consumers to seek health and medical information, but online medical advice has not been explored systematically...
- Patients looking for information on the Internet and seeking teleadvice: motivation, expectations, and misconceptions as expressed in e-mails sent to physicians
G Eysenbach
Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany
Arch Dermatol 135:151-6. 1999
..To explore the possible economics and problems of direct physician-to-patient teleadvice via electronic mails (e-mail)...
- MedCIRCLE: collaboration for Internet rating, certification, labelling and evaluation of health information on the World-Wide-Web
M A Mayer
, WMA, Official Medical Association of Barcelona, Spain
Stud Health Technol Inform 95:667-72. 2003
..Other aims include refinement and expansion of HIDDEL, to become a standard vocabulary and interchange format for self- and third-party ratings of health information...
- [The internet. Chances, risks and prospects for the surgical patient]
C Kohler
Forschungsgruppe Cybermedizin and eHealth, Institut und Poliklinik für Arbeits und Sozialmedizin, Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Bergheimer Strasse 58, 69115 Heidelberg
Chirurg 73:410-6. 2002
..In particular, consumers will use intelligent computer programs, so-called "agents", to gather information or to evaluate the trustworthiness of health information providers...
