Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter?

OBJECTIVE To determine the significance of the English Wikipedia as a source of online health information. DESIGN The authors measured Wikipedia's ranking on general Internet search engines by entering keywords from MedlinePlus, NHS Direct Online, and the National Organization of Rare Diseases as qu...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 471 - 480
Main Authors: Laurent MR, Vickers TJ, Laurent, Michaël R, Vickers, Tim J
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul/Aug2009
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