Abstract
Kiley R, ed. A Guide to Healthcare Resources on the Internet. 112 pages, illustrated. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, 2001. ISBN 1-85315-473-3. Price: GBP 9.95. I reviewed Robert Kiley's ‘The Doctor's Internet Handbook' in Acta 3 years ago (1999; 78 : 742). The present volume is not an updated revision; it is a completely new guide to the best sources of health information on the Internet. Some of the web references appear to be UK specific, but the majority are internationally relevant. It is a multiauthor book covering renal medicine, evidence-based health care, mental health, health statistics, women's health, the human genome, cancer, nursing, orthopedics, pharmacy, professional health portals in the UK, and how and where to find health information on the Internet. The guide to women's health is compiled by Hans van der Slikke, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Amsterdam, and is split into two chapters: pregnancy, childbirth and ultrasound, and gynecology and reproductive health. In the paragraph on evidence-based obstetrics, it is claimed that obstetricians and gynecologists may obtain the full text of the Cochrane database reviews free of charge at http://www.obgyn.net/cochrane.asp, but when I tried, they still wanted my credit card details (the abstracts were free). The different chapters are variously organized. Some are split into sites for researchers, specialists, patients or consumers, and education and teaching resources. The text is interspersed with instructive pictures of actual websites. As editor Kiley points out in the preface, it is often time-consuming to search for a specific subject on the Internet, and the information gathered may be inaccurate, biased, out-of-date, and irrelevant. Those of us who search through PubMed are often frustrated with the enormous number of references if our key words are not sufficiently specific. ‘A Guide to Healthcare Resources on the Internet’ is a welcome vehicle for finding relevant and reliable sites. The book also has a supporting website, http://www.rsm.ac.uk/pub/bkkiley2.htm, with hypertext links to all featured topics, and through which the reader can contact the editor.
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