eMedicine

eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely, two medical doctors. The website is searchable by keyword and consists of approximately 6,800 articles, each of which is associated with one of 62 clinical subspecialty textbooks. Collectively the 6,800 articles comprise 62 clinical subspecialty textbooks. Pediatrics, for example, consists of 14 subspecialty textbooks (endocrinology, genetics, cardiology, pulmonology, etc.). For example, 750 articles comprise the textbook on emergency medicine. Each article is authored by board certified specialists in the subspecialty to which the article belongs. The article's authors are identified with their current faculty appointments. Each article is updated yearly and the date is published on the article. In January 2006 the website was used by 1.5 Million readers per day, from 120 countries.

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History

It was sold to WebMD in January 2006.[1]

The site is free to use, requiring only registration. More than 10,000 contributors from several countries participated in the creation of the articles. It is operated as an e-book, the articles can be downloaded into a palm top device.[2]

It was originally conceived in 1996 as an emergency medicine textbook but its content has expanded considerably since then to include allergy and immunology, cardiology, clinical procedures, critical care, dermatology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology. genomic medicine, hematology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, pathology, perioperative care, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, pulmonology, radiology, rheumatology, and sports medicine. Surgical subspecialties include neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, (ENT) and facial plastic surgery, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, transplantation, Trauma, urology, and vascular surgery. It is web-based.

Studies

A 2009 study in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology among ophthalmologists showed that "89.1% of respondents accessed peer-reviewed material online, including Emedicine (60.2%)." [3]

A 2007 study published in Academic Radiology showed that 12% of radiology residents used eMedicine as their first source when doing research on the Internet.[4]

A 2005 study in Neuro-Oncology ranking 114 sites rated it the second-highest Internet-based source of information for pediatric neuro-oncology, after the site of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.cancer.gov/[5]

A 2002 study in Evidence Based Dermatology described the site's coverage of dermatology as "excellent and comprehensive."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Redherring.com
  2. ↑ Platt, AF (2008). Evidence-Based Medicine for PDAs: A Guide for Practice. Jones and Bartlett Publishers. pp. 80–82. ISBN 0763754765. 
  3. ↑ PMID 19491979 (PubMed)
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  4. ↑ Kitchin DR, Applegate KE (2007). "Learning radiology a survey investigating radiology resident use of textbooks, journals, and the internet". Academic Radiology 14 (9): 1113–20. doi:10.1016/j.acra.2007.06.002. PMID 17707320. 
  5. ↑ Hargrave DR, Hargrave UA, Bouffet E (2006). "Quality of health information on the Internet in pediatric neuro-oncology". Neuro-Oncology 8 (2): 175–82. doi:10.1215/15228517-2005-008. PMID 16533758. 
  6. ↑ Maibach, HI; Bashir SJ; McKibbon A (2002). Evidence-based dermatology. PMPH-USA. pp. 289–91. ISBN 1550091727. 

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