title: Finding health information on the Internet: health consumers.
abstract: The quality of health information on the Internet is extremely variable. This article highlights some of the problems consumers encounter when searching for health information and suggests ways in which these can be overcome.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, Wellcome Trust, London NW1 2BE.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kiley
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet / Q000592:standards*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011786:Quality Control