Some interesting abstracts from PubMed:
“Google is an efficient web resource for identifying specific medical information.” Google was more efficient than all other resources for identifying medical information (P less than 0.0001) http://bit.ly/6FXATW
Google Scholar versus PubMed in locating primary literature to answer drug-related questions: no major differences http://bit.ly/8OygYt
Wikipedia is not authoritative and should only be a “supplemental source” of drug information http://bit.ly/7qzZ7k
Does Wikipedia provide evidence-based health care information? http://bit.ly/4WVLHt – No. Who is surprised?
Personality characteristics of Wikipedia members: Introverted women more likely to be members than extroverted women http://bit.ly/8YfrXb
Mobile Websites from Pubmed: Search Abstracts and Find Disease Associations http://bit.ly/7ucyn5 – Works on Kindle too. The mobile MedlinePlus (for consumers) is at m.medlineplus.gov http://bit.ly/6jjkt3
Image source: Doctors Using Google by Philipp Lenssen, used with permission.
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