Internet - Statistics & numerical data
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Factors related to purchasing over-the-counter medications online]

30 Aug 2009 We conducted a Web-based survey of approximately 40,000 Internet users on the purchase of over-the-counter (OTC) medications online in March 2009. The valid response rate was 97.8% and the number of responses was 39,208. The number of people who had ... Read more...

Physicians' characteristics in the usage of online database: a representative nationwide survey of regional hospitals in Taiwan.

30 Aug 2009 Physicians have to deal with a broad range of medical problems in clinical practice, thus making the timely acquisition of relevant information is a critical skill for physicians to improve care quality. The current national study investigates how ... Read more...

The gender imbalance in academic medicine: a study of female authorship in the United Kingdom.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: A shortfall exists of female doctors in senior academic posts in the United Kingdom. Career progression depends on measures of esteem, including publication in prestigious journals. This study investigates gender differences in first and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Internet - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Factors related to purchasing over-the-counter medications online] 30 Aug 2009
• Physicians' characteristics in the usage of online database: a representative nationwide survey of regional hospitals in Taiwan. 30 Aug 2009
• The gender imbalance in academic medicine: a study of female authorship in the United Kingdom. 30 Jul 2009
• The physician-patient relationship: primary care perspective. 30 Jul 2009
• The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending. 12 Jul 2009
• Factors affecting health care workers' adoption of a website with infection control guidelines. 2 Jul 2009
• An audit of health products advertised for sale on chiropractic Web sites in Canada and consideration of these practices in the context of Canadian chiropractic codes of ethics and conduct. 29 Jun 2009
• Screening for high-risk drinking in a college student health center: characterizing students based on quantity, frequency, and harms. 29 Jun 2009
• A randomized trial of a parent-based intervention on drinking behavior among incoming college freshmen. 29 Jun 2009
• Evaluating a comprehensive campus-community prevention intervention to reduce alcohol-related problems in a college population. 29 Jun 2009
• [Modular semiquantitative quality assessment of ophthalmic health information on the internet--reproducibility and correlation between different assessment categories] 20 Jun 2009
• The denominator problem: estimating MSM-specific incidence of sexually transmitted infections and prevalence of HIV using population sizes of MSM derived from Internet surveys. 9 Jun 2009
• Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: a qualitative study. 3 Jun 2009
• Gambling, gambling activities, and problem gambling. 30 May 2009
• An Internet version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-IV): correspondence of the ADHD section with the paper-and-pencil version. 30 May 2009
• A survey of the current status of web-based databases indexing Iranian journals. 29 Apr 2009
• Factorial structure of Web credibility in a population of Italian Internet users: a pilot study. 30 Mar 2009
• Association of general population suicide rates with urbanisation. 30 Mar 2009
• Disappearing act: decay of uniform resource locators in health care management journals. 30 Mar 2009
• Science journalism: Supplanting the old media? 17 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Internet'

Definition: A loose confederation of computer communication networks around the world. The networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the US Government ARPAnet project and was designed to facilitate information exchange.

Descriptor UI: D020407

Alternative terms: Internet; Internets; World Wide Web; Web, World Wide; Wide Web, World;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; instrumentation; organization & administration;

Tree Number: L01.224.230.110.500;

History Note: 99; see COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 1996-98