ACCESSING AND USING THE INTERNETS WORLD-WIDE-WEB FOR EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS

This report describes the use of the internet's World Wide Web (WWW) f or emergency physicians. WWW is a graphic means of presenting informat ion over the internet, Because this graphic presentation is derived fr om a point and click method of navigating through information, emergen cy physicians with little or no computer background should be able to benefit, There are currently many resources available to emergency phy sicians on the WWW that can be viewed at no charge, It is essentially a worldwide library of information that is growing at a rapid rate, An algorithm is presented to assist emergency physicians in deciding how to best access the WWW, depending on the physician's current resource s, and some background information required to gain access to WWW is d escribed. (Am J Emerg Med 1996;14:302-308. Copyright (C) 1996 by W.B. Saunders Company)