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The Birmingham Hand Centre

New age website for the advancement of hand surgery

S Noor, M Cheema, A Lakdawala, V Rajaratnam



University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Medical Websites

•Growth of medical content available in cyberspace•Google search

• 10,300,000 for hand & surgery and 1,300,000 "hand surgery".

• 15,600,000 for plastic surgery and 11,700,000 for "plastic surgery".

• 4,560,000 for orthopaedic surgery and 2,960,000 for "orthopaedic surgery".

•Quality , Credibility, Authority

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http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.answers.com/hand&r=67&sa=X&oi=dict&ct=D&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNF3SiU_fFX5jO6ba_sQdQ2wafrF5g

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.answers.com/surgery&r=67&sa=X&oi=dict&ct=D&cd=2&usg=AFQjCNEkHWTnCEqa-ehT1X1lTj6-0osC1Q

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.answers.com/hand&r=67&sa=X&oi=dict&ct=D&cd=3&usg=AFQjCNF3SiU_fFX5jO6ba_sQdQ2wafrF5g


http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.answers.com/plastic+surgery&r=67&sa=X&oi=dict&ct=D&cd=2&usg=AFQjCNHSoBlxBfrXz-bscRGKctAR4bGxsQ






What are medical surfers requirements?Questionnaire Survey

Aim: To determine the perceived qualities of a good hand surgery website by doctors.

Method: 12 questions posed to Hand Surgery, T&O and Plastics Surgery doctors.

Questionnaires handed out at ROH NHS FT, UHB NHS FT, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT.

62 Responses•Consultants: 16 (T&0 + Plastic Surgery)• Trainees: 46 (SPR / SHO)




Questionnaire• 1. Streaming video on surgical procedures• 2. Lectures presentations (e.g. as PowerPoint or PDF)• 3. Web casts ( Audio and video ) on topics in hand surgery • 4. Ability to download and save selected material • 5. Ability to upload material e.g. case presentations• 6. Case Discussion forum• 7. Collaborate amongst professionals• 8. Ability to participate in an online course including test (MCQ) etc• 9. Ability to provide/create an online course• 10. Would you like to see commercial adverts on such a website• 11. Would you like to receive syndicated/regularly changing web content• 12. Would you consider payment for such an educational web site?

Using Likert score 0 – 5 strongly agree





ACCREDITATION OF WEBSITES

•Health On the Net Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use.

Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

http://www.hon.ch/visitor_safeUse.html




• 1. Authoritative • Indicate the qualifications of the authors

• 2. Complementarity • Information should support, not replace, the doctor-patient relationship

• 3. Privacy • Respect the privacy and confidentiality of personal data submitted

• 4. Attribution • Cite the source(s) of published information

• 5. Justifiability • Site must back up claims relating to benefits and performance

• 6. Transparency • Accessible presentation, accurate email contact

• 7. Financial disclosure • Identify funding sources

• 8. Advertising policy • Clearly distinguish advertising from editorial content

HON Code







HON Certified Hand Surgery web site







www.handsurgerymanual.com•Went on line October 2006 – FrontPage platform•Web2.0 platform using Joomla open source CMS 2008

The philosophy:-• Open to ideas• Knowledge is universal and belongs to no one • Disseminate knowledge as freely as possible • Knowledge is valuable only if used • Allow anyone to share their knowledge • Ultimate objective is to improve the quality of hand

surgery universally




Web 2.0

• a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004 • a “second generation” of Internet-based services• allow surfers to collaborate and share information online

• the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content

• changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/static

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/webpage

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dynamic

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shareable

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/content

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_science)&action=edit&redlink=1




Dynamic and transparent channel for on demand learning with enhanced user participation, clinical

and medical information sharing, and collaboration among doctors.




www.handsurgerymanual.com

•Board of Editors•Technical Board •Portal for hand surgeon by hand surgeons with hand surgeons

•Open Source software – Joomla•Self funded•No advertising




www.handsurgerymanual.com•Content! Content! Content!•Articles/Lectures•News•Videos•Podcast•Forums•Quiz•Case presentations•Research•Literature reviews

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