“Study: Junior physician’s use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education:
Google and Wikipedia used by 80% and 70% of physicians, respectively.
Wikipedia is a prominent source of online health information compared to the other online health info providers studied. Wikipedia ranked among first ten results in 71-85% of search engines and medical keywords tested. In search tests, “Wikipedia surpassed MedlinePlus and NHS Direct Online and ranked higher with quality articles”.”
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Ves Dimov, Clinical Cases and Images – Blog, 9 July 2009
