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OBJECTIVE: To examine patients' use of the Internet to obtain medical information, their opinions on the quality of medical Web sites, and their attitudes towards Internet-based consultations.
CONCLUSIONS: Over half of the patients studied were willing to access the Internet for medical information, with younger patients more likely to undertake...

CONCLUSION: Our electronic discussion group, Turk-orthopod, has proved to be a quick communication tool, presenting a considerable potential to contribute to continuous medical education of Turkish orthopedists.
A survey study on "Turk-Orthopod", a Turkish electronic discussion group in orthopedics and traumatology Arazi M, Yaman H, Heybeli N. Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc. 2004;38(4):277-81. Full...

Editorial comment on the workshop held Nov 2009 on Health Informatics in Orthopaedic Surgery
Christian Veillette

Many people have become so frustrated with the difficulty of finding useful orthopaedic information on the Internet that they have concluded there is not any worth the bother. While it is possible to develop the skill needed to search more effectively and find good stuff, there could be a shortcut:...

Deciding what to call an orthopaedic subject is a "housekeeping" issue but none the less vital. Orthopaedics is full of synonyms and acronyms. But to search electronically, one needs a unique name or code that can be added to every piece of information that relates to that subject. Only then...

The enormous number of pages on the Orthopaedic Internet and the difficulty of finding them, makes a directory of orthopaedic addresses and attractive idea. OWL has been attempting to fill this role since 1996. It is an interactive searchable database of addresses of orthopaedic pages in roughly three areas -...

This gives an account (with literature citations) of Searching, Web Page creation, Digital Imaging and Presentation Graphics

If Orthopaedic Informatics is about "the utility of orthopaedic information as it pertains to the treatment of patients", then Evidence Based Orthopaedics (EBO) is the heart of OI. Fortunately it is also the subject which attracts the most attention from mainstream orthopaedics. Reviews and meta-analyses are frequently published and constitute...

Access to the major citations databases of the scientific literature is one of the great contributions the Internet has made to the practice of orthopaedics. The Medline database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been online at the PubMed site for three years now. It has 102...

Using Internet search engines to find orthopaedic information is even more of an art form and even more frustrating than finding citations to the literature. We need to visit that subject in the future but for now, we will concentrate on using sites which are more or less guaranteed to...

Using search engines is a popular and seemingly easy way to find information on the Internet, however, it is much less predictable than the other two methods and is responsible for much of the bad press the Internet receives from serious users.
Finding Orthopaedic Information on the Internet - Part III...

Index of subjects posted about Orthopaedic Informatics on Orthopaedia

This article is an entry to the literature on the use of information technology (IT) both in orthopaedic trainee education and in CME, as well as a brief review of useful Internet resources.
Information Technology and Orthopaedic Education Myles Clough, M.D., FRCSC Christian Veillette, M.D., FRCSC

The orthopaedic journals are the most experienced institutions when it comes to high quality information. Most of them have now moved to post a full text version of their "papers" on the Internet but try to support their subscription base by requiring a high price for access to this information....

The Internet has produced a truly phenomenal increase in access to information. This is really only helpful to patients if the information is filtered and appropriate to their specific needs. Too often patients access information about conditions they have self-diagnosed and bring it to the consultation with their physician, who...