[The Cologne internet-manual of pain therapy--33 months online, experiences and evaluation].
OBJECTIVE
The improvement of ambulant treatment for patients with chronic headache or cancer pain.


METHODS
Distribution of accepted guidelines and standards by means of the internet in order to make this knowledge known among general practitioners and to give patients better access to this information.


RESULTS
We have built an internet manual about the treatment of chronic headache and cancer pain. About 9100 readers accessed the manual during a period of 33 months. The manual has been completely downloaded 279 times. Physicians and patients very often used search engines to access the manual in their search for information about headache. The terms "migraine" and "tension type headache" were looked up the most.


CONCLUSIONS
It is worthwhile editing medical information for use on the internet and thus making it available to the public.
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Institut für Medizinische Statistik, Informatik und Epidemiologie, Universität zu Köln, Cologne. Andreas.Koop@medizin.uni-koeln.de
Radbruch
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Hanssen
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Novak
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Elsner
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Loick
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Sonntag
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Mösges
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D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005194:Family Practice; D005858:Germany; D006261:Headache / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D009862:Online Systems; D059408:Pain Management
Das Kölner Internet-Schmerzmanual. 33 Monate online--Erfahrungen und Evaluation.