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How to find useful trauma information on the Net

How to find useful trauma information on the Net. Chris Oliver DM FRCS(Tr & Orth) FRCP Consultant Trauma Surgeon Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit www.trauma.co.uk cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk. Unless you are a orthogeek!. information may not be on the Internet

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How to find useful trauma information on the Net

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  1. How to find useful trauma information on the Net Chris Oliver DM FRCS(Tr & Orth) FRCP Consultant Trauma Surgeon Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit www.trauma.co.uk cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  2. Unless you are a orthogeek! • information may not be on the Internet • search engines do not search the whole Internet • search strategy is poor • information is buried in poor quality pages • searching in an area where there is an overwhelming amount of information cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  3. “What would this be like without computers?” Using a computer it is a much quicker and more productive than you would ever achieve on your own cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  4. What is Information Quality? • Ill-defined • Impossible to objectively measure cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  5. ASSESSING, CONTROLLING, AND ASSURING THE QUALITY OF MEDICAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNETSilberg WM, Lundberg GD, Musacchio RA. JAMA 1997; Vol 277(15): 1244-1245 cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  6. OMNI www.omni.ac.uk HON www.hon.ch OWL www.orthopaedicweblinks.com Medical Quality Figureheads cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  7. Sensitive and Specific Searches – Boolean Logic • A OR B means all of A, all of B including the overlap • A AND B means only the overlap between A and B • A NOT B means all of A except the overlap with B cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  8. Regions to search • citations to the scientific literature • Internet free-for-all cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  9. Medline - PubMedhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi • training and practice • some journals are not part of MEDLINE • sophisticated logical system to translate your search string into terms that the searching system can use most efficiently • orthopaedic subjects - abstract of the article • there are links to the full text articles on the journal sites but in most instances you must be a subscriber or use an agent cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  10. Google – 10/08/02www.google.co.uk cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  11. Other Search Strategies • Visiting the textbook sites • Using an Index site • Visiting the site of a Journal • Using a search engine • Random surfing cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  12. Net Top 5:Textbook Orthopaedic Sites • Wheeless Textbook of Orthopaedics http://www.ortho-u.net/ • WorldOrtho http://www.worldortho.com/ • South Australian Orthopaedic Registrar Notes http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/ORTHOWEB/notebook/home.html • Orthonet http://orthonet.on.ca/ • Orthoteers http://www.orthoteers.co.uk/ cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  13. Net Top 5:Trauma Orthopaedic Sites • Orthopaedic Trauma Association http://www.ota.org/ • Trauma Org http://www.trauma.org/ • Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit http://www.trauma.co.uk/ • OTA Basic Fracture Course http://www.hwbf.org/ota/bfc/ • Orthoteers http://www.orthoteers.co.uk/ cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  14. Orthopaedic Index Sites cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

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  16. OWL www.orthopaedicweblinks.com cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  17. Why is OWL unique? • Clough, Oliver, Veillette: senior editors • Peer reviewed 7000+ sites • MySQL, Apache, Unix, Open Source code • Database driven via web • Open global editorship • Advanced Spider technology in development • Code is cool! cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  18. Netlines review of OWLBMJ 2002;325:344 (10 August ) http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7359/344/a "For a classy collection of orthopaedic websites check out OWL, Orthopaedic Web Links, at www.orthopaedicweblinks.com There are literally thousands of links to choose from and they are grouped into broad searchable categories. Like all good link collections, there is a newly added list and, of course, it is possible to search the whole database. This is an extremely well designed interface that offers visitors quick access to any material that interests them." cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  19. Journal Sites • Most journals have a website • Access is variable • Publishing in turmoil at present cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  20. Using Search Engines • Exploded on the net • Huge databases – inexact searches • Meta search engines • www.ixquick.com • www.vivisimo.com • Metadata in pages to improve cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  21. Internet Search Engines? • Search engines indexing and ranking effects • economic, social, political, and scientific effects • Economic viability of a research institution • Delayed indexing of scientific research can lead to the duplication of work • Delayed or biased indexing may affect surgical or political decisions cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  22. Random Surfing • Luck but fun! cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  23. Summary • Strategies to discover quality online orthopaedic trauma information on the Internet • Described ways to cope with the problems of discovering information cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  24. Thanks to: • Myles Clough • http://condor.sechrest.com/clough/book/chap6b_files/difficulties.htm cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

  25. Remember there is nothing like a good book! cwoliver@rcsed.ac.uk

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