An analysis of patient care questions asked by pediatricians at an academic medical center.

Background: General pediatricians' information needs are not presently well characterized in the literature.

Objective: To characterize the patient care information needs of academic medical center pediatricians by collecting and classifying questions generated in clinical settings, allowing pediatric educators and authors to more effectively meet the needs of pediatricians.

Methods: A semistructured telephone survey of pediatric residents and faculty at a midwestern US academic medical center over two 6-month periods.

Reading level of privacy policies on Internet health Web sites.

Objective: Most individuals would like to maintain the privacy of their medical information on the World Wide Web (WWW). In response, commercial interests and other sites post privacy policies that are designed to inform users of how their information will be used. However, it is not known if these statements are comprehensible to most WWW users.