For healthcare consumers and professionals who want to know more about how to find and decipher quality medical/health information, learn and investigate various internet search methods, and learn how to efficiently conduct a search. This book provides the above, plus over 1,750 medical/health related unduplicated, validated and categorized websites.
The book is pocket-size, comb-bound for ease-of-use and is also available on CDROM (word 6.0/office'97, IBM compatible)
Colleen K. Lindell is a Registered Nurse, Information Researcher with over fifteen years nursing experience. She completed her theses project on Internet Medical and Health information and has written extensively on the topic. She manages a Legal Nursea nd Information Consulting business.
Dr. William R. Hersh is Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. He leads a research program in medical information retrieval and serves as Course Director for local and national continuing education courses on the use of computers for clinicians. He also practices Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.