Consumer Informatics Project

Publications Esquivel A, Meric-Bernstam F, Bernstam EV.  Accuracy and self correction of information received from an internet breast cancer list: analysis of posting content. BMJ. 2006 Mar 2; 332, pp.939-42. Bernstam EV, Sagaram S, Walji M, Johnson CW, Meric-Bernstam F. Usability of quality measures for online health information: Can commonly used technical quality criteria be reliably assessed? Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug;74(7-8):675-83. Epub 2005 Mar 24. Walji M, Sagaram S, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson CW, Bernstam EV.  Searching for cancer-related information online: unintended retrieval of complementary and alternative medicine information. Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug;74(7-8):685-93. Bernstam EV, Shelton DM, Walji M, Meric-Bernstam F. Instruments to assess the quality of health information on the World Wide Web: what can our patients actually use? Int J Med Inf, 74:1, pp. 13-9. Walji M, Sagaram S, Sagaram D, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Mirza NQ, Bernstam EV. Efficacy of quality criteria to identify potentially harmful information: a cross-sectional survey of complementary and alternative medicine websites. J Med Internet Res 2004, June, 29; 6(2): e21 Bernstam EV, Meric-Bernstam F. Evaluating the quality of health information on the Web. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health-E-Technologies Initiative. Health-e-Bytes, Spring 2004 edition. Sagaram S, Walji M, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Bernstam EV.  Inter-observer agreement for quality measures applied to online health information. MedInfo 2004, ipp 1308-12. Walji M, Sagaram S, Meric-Bernstam F, Johnson C, Bernstam EV.  Cancer-related complementary and alternative medicine online: factors affecting information retrieval. MedInfo 2004, pp. 1318-22. Meric F, Bernstam EV. Breast cancer on the World Wide Web. Breast Diseases, A Yearbook Quarterly (2003), 14:1, pp. 20-3. Sagaram S, Walji M, Bernstam EV. Evaluating the prevalence, content and readability of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) web pages on the Internet. Proceedings of the AMIA Fall Symposium 2002, pp. 672-6. Michea Y, Pancehri K, Gong Y, Bernstam EV. Availability of online communication technology on diabetes web sites: comparing Chinese, English and Spanish web sites. Proceedings of the AMIA Fall Symposium 2002, pp. 523-7.  Meric F, Bernstam EV,  Mirza NQ, Hunt KK, Ames FC, Ross MI, Kuerer HM, Pollock RE, Musen MA, Singletary SE. Breast Cancer on the World Wide Web: A Cross-sectional survey of Information Quality and Web Site Popularity. BMJ, 324:577-581, 2002. Meric F, Bernstam EV, Mirza NQ, Hunt KK, Ames FC, Ross MI, Kuerer HM, Pollock RE, Musen MA and Singletary SE. Breast Cancer on the World Wide Web: Determinants of Web Site Popularity. Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 37th Annual Meeting 20:39b (abstract 1904), 2001. Watch this space for more information about our Consumer Informatics Project