title: Guidelines, policies and the Internet.
abstract: The Internet may become a powerful tool in the implementation of medical guidelines, but experience with this new technology is rather limited. Scientific assessments of how the Internet may cover the needs of healthcare professionals are still not available, but concerns about data reliability and the management of information abundance are already being raised.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.lastname: Daschner