What can we do about Dr. Google? Using the electronic medical record (EMR) to prescribe reliable online patient education.

Objective: The project enabled clinicians to utilize the electronic medical record (EMR) to easily prescribe preapproved online patient education resources to their patients.

Background: Physicians and other clinicians are concerned about the wide use of "Dr. Google" and the difficulties of responding to patients who demand unproven or unnecessary tests and therapies they found out about on the Internet.

Patient-selected media and knowledge of risk to kidneys of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Objectives: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can cause community-acquired acute kidney injury, especially in high-risk populations. Both the U.S.

Expert searching in consumer health: an important role for librarians in the age of the Internet and the Web.

Objectives: The Patient Education Resource Center at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center conducts mediated searches for patients and families seeking information on complex medical issues, state-of-the-art treatments, and rare cancers. The current study examined user satisfaction and the impact of information provided to this user population.

Methods: This paper presents the results of 566 user evaluation forms collected between July 2000 and June 2006 (1,532 forms distributed; 37% response rate).