Radiology on Internet: advice in consulting websites and evaluating their quality

Services offered by Internet are increasing continually and 15,000 medical websites covering all the specialties are available presently. Finding rele vant information with a spider-web organization is difficult. We recommend starting with hierarchical which propose a selection of sites corresponding medical specialties. We give our selection of important radiological websi tes dealing with image databases, reports, radioanatomy and continuing medi cal education. While surfing the Web, an evaluation of the quality of websi tes is necessary. We used quality criteria proposed by Darmoni to rate the quality of ten websites. The global quality is good; help pages and externa l links are the main noticed shortcomings. All webmasters should pay attent ion to quality criteria and show visible marks of Darmoni criteria on their home page. To be able to foresee: which Internet options should be develop ed, we evaluated our website and sent a questionnaire to our users. Clinica l cases are the most requested facilities; they could be used for continuin g medical education.