I'm relatively new to evidenced based haelth care discussions, so may be
missing something. Since this question comes up a lot when we do rural
Internet/MEDLINE workshops in Wisconsin, I checked this site. I was
surprised that references were not included, so I tried a PubMed MEDLINE
search, using the Clinical queries feature for therapy. Checking
sensitivity produced 93 citations, with just 5 for specificity. It seems
like there is evidence supporting use of some of the chemical preparations.
Why not cite the citations in the website article? If more quality websites
included the evidence, it would be easier to teach health professionals and
the public how to evaluate health information on the web. As it is, anyone
can publish on the web - this site includes authors with great sounding
credentials, but no bibliography to back them up.
By the way, we also got the olive oil question - unbelievable! The website
promoting this wanted to sell every family their video. We teach health
professionals to beware of sites selling something, without any evidence to
back it up, and this has been a good example for us.
Hope this helps - Peg
Margaret (Peg) Allen, MLS-AHIP mailto:[log in to unmask]
Library/Information Consultant
Resource Librarian Consultant for Cinahl Information Systems, Inc.
http://www.cinahl.com/
Project Director, Northwoods HealthNet, Northern Wisconsin AHEC, Inc.
http://home.dwave.net/~nahec/nwhn/
PO Box 2, 308 Kann, Stratford, WI 54484-0002
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter English <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 4:53 AM
Subject: re: Head Lice
>Look at http://www.fam-english.demon.co.uk/phmeghl.htm for a considered
>view of the evidence.
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