Patient Education/Information Prescription

Ashmore AM. Information Rx: fill at your local public library. Public Libraries. 2008 Nov-Dec;47(6):44-51.

D'Alessandro DM. A randomized controlled trial of an information prescription for pediatric patient education on the Internet. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine [Internet]. 2004 Sep [cited 2005 Jan 25];158(9):857-62. Available from: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/content/vol158/issue9/index.dtl Available for purchase.

Dillon K. "Health Information Prescription" project launched in Virginia. Virginia Libraries [Internet]. 2004 Jan-Mar [cited 2005 Jan 25];50(1):15-6. Available from: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/v50_n1/v50n1.pdf

Jones S. Health information referral project. Virginia Libraries [Internet]. 2004 Apr-Jun [cited 2005 Jan 25];50(2):11-6. Available from: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/v50_n2/v50n2.pdf

Ko Y, Brown M, Frost R, Woosley RL. Brief report: development of a prescription medication information Webliography for consumers. Journal of General Internal Medicine [Internet]. 2006 Dec [cited 2006 Dec 21];21(12):1313-6. Epub 2006 Sep 25. Available from: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jgi/21/s5 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00620.x

McConnaughy R P, Wilson SP. InfoAble portal: Developing a disability information portal for a support network for families. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet [Internet]. 2010 Jan;14(1):1-11. Available from: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a919455899&fulltext=713240928 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1080/02763860903542934.

Meeks K. Information Rx: promotion and utilization by Georgia librarians and the Georgia American College of Physicians. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet [Internet]. 2009 Apr [cited 2009 Jul 23]; 13(2):129-34. Available for purchase. Available from: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a911119089 DOI: 10.1080/15398280902896493

Online patient education becomes a reality, just click on MEDLINEplus to check it out. Internet Medicine. 2001 Dec;6(12):11-2.

Research and Evaluation

Burkell J, Campbell DG. "What does this mean?" How Web-based consumer health information fails to support information seeking in the pursuit of informed consent for screening test decisions. Journal of the Medical Library Association [Internet]. 2005 Jul [cited 2005 Aug 6];93(3):363-73. Available from: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1175802

Coleman B. Producing an information leaflet to help patients access high quality drug information on the Internet: a local study. Health Information and Libraries Journal [Internet]. 2003 Sep [cited 2005 Jan 25];20(3):160-71. Available from: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120095510/PDFSTART Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2532.2003.00426.x

Coberly E, Boren SA, Davis JW, McConnell AL, Chitima-Matsiga R, Ge B, Logan RA, Steinmann WC, Hodge RH. Linking clinic patients to Internet-based, condition-specific information prescriptions. Journal of the Medical Library Association [Internet]. 2010 Apr [cited 2011 Jan 1];98(2):160-4. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859275/?tool=pubmed DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.98.2.009

Crowell J, Zeng Q, Ngo L, Lacroix EM. A frequency-based technique to improve the spelling suggestion rank in medical queries. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [Internet]. 2004 May [cited 2005 Jan 25];11(3):179-85. Available from: http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/11/3/179 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1474

Deleger L, Merkel M, Zweigenbaum P. Translating medical terminologies through word alignment in parallel text corpora. Journal of Biomedical Informatics [Internet] 2009 Aug;42(4):692-701. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.03.002.

Fiszman M, Rindflesch TC, Kilicoglu H. Interpreting hypernymic propositions in an online Your Medical Guide. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium [Internet]. 2003 [cited 2005 Jan 25]:840. Available from: http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/lhc/docs/published/2003/pub2003056.pdf

Fiszman M, Rindflesch TC, Kilicoglu H. Summarization of an online Your Medical Guide. Medinfo. 2004;11(Pt 1):506-10.

Ghaddar SF, Valerio MA, Garcia CM, Hansen L. Adolescent health literacy: the importance of credible sources for online health information. Journal of School Health [Internet]. 2012 Jan [cited 2011 Dec 25];82(1):28-36. Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1746-1561.2011.00664.x/full Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2011.00664.x.

Hailemeskel B, Dutta AP, Daftary M, Akiyode O, Ayuk-Egbe P, Koomer A, Ellis L, Ward L, Xue Z. Campus-community pharmacy partnership to foster awareness and use of MedlinePlus. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association [Internet]. 2007 May-June 1 [cited 2007 May 19];47(3):385-389. Available from: http://www.pharmacist.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=JAPhA2. Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1331/JAPhA.2007.06067

How well do supplements work? Check this source. Heart Advisor [Internet]. 2006 Dec [cited 2008 Mar 6]; 9(12):5. Available from: http://www.heart-advisor.com/issues/9_12/features/398-1.html Available for purchase.

Keselman A, Browne AC, and Kaufman DR . Consumer health information seeking as hypothesis testing. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [Internet]. 2008 Jul-Aug [cited 2008 Apr 26];15(4):484-95. Epub 2008 Apr 24. Available from: http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/15/4/484 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2449

Keselman A, Smith CA, Divita G, Kim H, Browne AC, Leroy G, and Zeng-Treitler Q. Consumer health concepts that do not map to the UMLS: where do they fit? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [Internet]. 2008 Jul-Aug;15(4):496-505. Epub 2008 Apr 24 [cited 2008 Jul 30]; 15(4):496-505. Available from: http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/15/4/496 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2599

Lau AY and Coiera EW. Impact of web searching and social feedback on consumer decision making: a prospective online experiment. Journal of Medical Internet Research [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2008 Feb 9]; 10(1):e2. Available from: http://www.jmir.org/2008/1/e2/HTML. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.963

Laurent MR, Vickers TJ. Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [Internet]. 2009 Jul-Aug [cited 2009 Jul 23]; 16(4):471-9 [Epub 2009 Apr 23]. Available from: http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/16/4/471. Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059

Liu RL, Lu YL. Context-based online medical terminology navigation. Expert Systems with Applications [Internet]. 2010 Mar [cited 2010 Jan 2];37(2):1594-9. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09574174 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.06.038.

Lopes CT, Ribeiro C. Comparative evaluation of web search engines in health information retrieval. Online Information Review [Internet]. 2011 [cited 2011 Dec 11];35(6):869-92. Available from: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17003966&show=abstract Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1108/14684521111193175

Lu WH, Lin RS, Chan YC, and Chen KH. Using Web resources to construct multilingual medical thesaurus for cross-language medical information retrieval. Decision Support Systems [Internet]. 2008 Jun [cited 2008 Jun 26]; 45(3):585-95. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01679236 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.07.004

Luthy, KE, Tiedeman, ME, Beckstrand, RL, Mills, DA. Safety of live-virus vaccines for children with immune deficiency. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners [Internet]. 2007 Oct [cited 2007 May 24];18(10):494-503. Available from: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1041-2972 Available for purchase. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.00163.x

McCray AT, Tse T. Understanding search failures in consumer health information systems. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Symposium [Internet]. 2003 [cited 2005 Jan 25];430-4. Available from: http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/lhc/docs/published/2003/pub2003049.pdf

Miller N. Analysis of user messages to MedlinePlus.gov. Journal of the Medical Library Association [Internet]. 2007 Jan [cited 2007 Mar 21];95(1):81-3. Available from: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17252071

Neveol A, Pereira S, Soualmia LF, Thirion B, Darmoni SJ. A method of cross-lingual consumer health information retrieval. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics [Internet]. 2006 [cited 2006 Nov 18];124:601-8. Available from: http://www.iospress.nl/ Available for purchase.

Olney CA, Warner DG, Reyna G, Wood FB, Siegel ER. MedlinePlus and the challenge of low health literacy: findings from the Colonias project. Journal of Medical Internet Research [Internet]. 2007 Jan [cited 2007 Mar 21];95(1):31-9. Available from: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17252064