THE QUALITY OF INFORMATION ON WOMENS HEALTH ON THE INTERNET

The World Wide Web is an excellent information resource for profession als and the public to gain clinical knowledge. Internet technology has changed the way we perceive and present data because of the speed wit h which complex data manipulations are now possible and the vast quant ities of data involved. The need for current, comprehensive data gave rise to a prevailing tradition of clear, factual, and impartial inform ation resources on the Internet. Most arguments in favor of regulating and restricting the information that is accessible to patients undere stimate the power of the new hearth care consumers and fail to disting uish between quality of information and quality of knowledge.