NDLI: Paging Doctor Google! Heuristics vs. technology

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Jhaveri, Kenar D. Schrier, Peter B. Joseph, Mattana
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The most dramatic development in medical decision-making technology has been the advent of the Internet. This has had an impact not only on clinicians, but has also become an important resource for patients who often approach their doctors with medical information they have obtained from the Internet. Increasingly, medical students, residents and attending physicians have been using the Internet as a tool for diagnosing and treating disease. Internet-based resources that are available take various forms, including informational websites, online journals and textbooks, and social media. Search engines such as Google have been increasingly used to help in making diagnoses of disease entities. Do these search methods fare better than experienced heuristic methods? In a small study, we examined the comparative role of heuristics versus the 'Google' mode of thinking. Internal medicine residents were asked to “google” key words to come up with a diagnosis. Their results were compared to experienced nephrology faculty and fellows in training using heuristics and no additional help of internet. Overall, with the aid of Google, the novices (internal medicine residents) correctly diagnosed renal diseases less often than the experts (the attendings) but with the same frequency as the intermediates (nephrology fellows). However, in a subgroup analysis of both common diseases and rare diseases, the novices correctly diagnosed renal diseases less often than the experts but more often than the intermediates in each analysis. The novices correctly diagnosed renal diseases with the same frequency as nephrology fellows in training.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-90.v1
Starting Page	90
File Format	PDF
ISSN	20461402
e-ISSN	20461402
Journal	F1000Research
Volume Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	F1000Research
Publisher Date	2013-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	F1000Research
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Immunology and Microbiology Medicine Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

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