Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study Export

@article{citeulike:974099, abstract = {Objective To determine how often searching with Google (the most popular search engine on the world wide web) leads doctors to the correct diagnosis.Design Internet based study using Google to search for diagnoses; researchers were blind to the correct diagnoses.Setting One year's (2005) diagnostic cases published in the case records of the New England Journal of Medicine.Cases 26 cases from the New England Journal of Medicine; management cases were excluded.Main outcome measure Percentage of correct diagnoses from Google searches (compared with the diagnoses as published in the New England Journal of Medicine).Results Google searches revealed the correct diagnosis in 15 (58\%, 95\% confidence interval 38\% to 77\%) cases.Conclusion As internet access becomes more readily available in outpatient clinics and hospital wards, the web is rapidly becoming an important clinical tool for doctors. The use of web based searching may help doctors to diagnose difficult cases. 10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE}, address = {Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Q4102, Australia. hangwitang@yahoo.com}, author = {Tang, Hangwi and Ng, Jennifer H.}, citeulike-article-id = {974099}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj.39003.640567.AEv1/.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj.39003.640567.AEv1/.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/333/7579/1143?ijKey=d4a87c79731cbb491bcfd0f4de5e5e71a00f45a3&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17098763}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17098763}, day = {10}, doi = {10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE}, issn = {1468-5833}, journal = {BMJ}, keywords = {bmj, decision-support, diagnosis, medicine, search}, month = {November}, number = {7579}, pages = {bmj.39003.640567.AE--1145}, posted-at = {2006-12-05 04:04:27}, priority = {0}, title = {Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE}, volume = {333}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:974099 L3 - citeulike-article-id:974099 N2 - Objective To determine how often searching with Google (the most popular search engine on the world wide web) leads doctors to the correct diagnosis.Design Internet based study using Google to search for diagnoses; researchers were blind to the correct diagnoses.Setting One year's (2005) diagnostic cases published in the case records of the New England Journal of Medicine.Cases 26 cases from the New England Journal of Medicine; management cases were excluded.Main outcome measure Percentage of correct diagnoses from Google searches (compared with the diagnoses as published in the New England Journal of Medicine).Results Google searches revealed the correct diagnosis in 15 (58%, 95% confidence interval 38% to 77%) cases.Conclusion As internet access becomes more readily available in outpatient clinics and hospital wards, the web is rapidly becoming an important clinical tool for doctors. The use of web based searching may help doctors to diagnose difficult cases. 10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE IS - 7579 JF - BMJ SN - 1468-5833 AD - Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Q4102, Australia. hangwitang@yahoo.com EP - 1145 TI - Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study VL - 333 SP - bmj.39003.640567.AE KW - bmj KW - decision-support KW - diagnosis KW - medicine KW - search AU - Tang, Hangwi AU - Ng, Jennifer PY - 2006/11/10/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE ER -