Health Information on Wikipedia: Can You Trust It?

被引：0

作者：

Epstein, Helen-Ann Brown ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Virtua Hlth, Mt Laurel, NJ USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF CONSUMER HEALTH ON THE INTERNET | 2022年 / 26卷 / 02期

关键词：

Wikipedia; trustworthy; health information; consumer health information; editathon;

D O I：

10.1080/15398285.2022.2069391

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced online encyclopedia begun in 2001, is potentially the most used source for medical information in the world with billions of visits each year. Its goal is to ensure that every person has access to all medical knowledge in their own language. The upside of this free open encyclopedia is everyone can enter an article. The downside of this free encyclopedia is that everyone can change words in an article. Vast amounts of health information has been added to Wikipedia, by medical professionals and some has even been edited by health science librarians and various health science student groups; but is it trustworthy? In this day and age of informed health consumers, is this an information tool on which to rely? This column traces the history of Wikipedia, comments on its health information contents and some editing efforts. This column ends with guiding questions whether or not it should be trusted.

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