| The internist's literature on chronic rhinosinusitis: an evaluation of the amount and quality of published information. | |
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PMID: 20737367 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Most patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) are treated by internists, yet the information available to internists about CRS is rarely assessed. The author undertook a study to evaluate the amount and quality of information about CRS that is available to internists. Four information sources were analyzed: (1) five journals routinely read by internists, published over a 10-year period and searched on PubMed for the "exploded" terms chronic and sinusitis; (2) seven representative general and outpatient medicine texts, searched on MD Consult and STAT!Ref; (3) the 14th edition of the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 14), a review of internal medicine; and (4) four commonly used Internet databases. The five journals contained a total of 37,250 cited articles of various types over the study period; CRS was mentioned in only 19 of them. The standard medical texts offered little information about CRS, and MKSAP 14 did not mention CRS at all in the text, although it included some information in the questions and answers. Finally, among the online sources, UpToDate, a proprietary Internet database, offered an excellent discourse on CRS; in contrast, the Physicians' Information and Education Resource, maintained by the American College of Physicians, contained no information about CRS in its 436 subject modules. The author concludes that, with few exceptions, the literature routinely available to internists offers little information about CRS. |
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Authors:
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Alexander C Chester |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Ear, nose, & throat journal Volume: 89 ISSN: 1942-7522 ISO Abbreviation: Ear Nose Throat J Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-08-25 Completed Date: 2010-12-07 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7701817 Medline TA: Ear Nose Throat J Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: E7-11 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA. achester@foxhallinternists.com |
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Books Chronic Disease Databases, Bibliographic / standards Humans Internal Medicine* Periodicals as Topic / standards Publishing / standards* Rhinitis* Sinusitis* |
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