Worth Checking Out
A study in this month’s Annals of Pharmacotherapy examines the search results for the most commonly dispensed drugs in the US on Bing, Google, and Yahoo. The study found that the first website returned in searches for drug information is likely to be The National Library of Medicine, an industry-sponsored site, or Wikipedia.
The article points out that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone – a fact that most pharmacists may not know. The article refers to a study which found that two-thirds of a group of US pharmacists who use Wikipedia were not aware that anyone can edit the information in Wikipedia entries.
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