Condition-related topic: A principal subject area of relevance to patients, their families or laypersons seeking information on the conditions examined in this study (e.g. breast cancer screening).
Clinical element: A component or concept of particular significance within a developed condition-related topic. Clinical elements were developed based on evidence-based guidelines and materials from selected literature reviews. (e.g. For the topic, "breast cancer screening," four clinical elements were developed. These included: women over 50 should have mammograms every one to two years; early detection of breast cancer improves outcomes; most breast cancers occur in women without a family history; and the lack of consensus about the need for or appropriate interval of mammography in women from age 40-49 years.)
Inter-rater reliability: The correlation in scores that results when two different reviewers evaluate the same case. It’s a measure of agreement between reviewers. A score of 1 indicates perfect agreement between reviewers. A score of 0 indicates no agreement between reviewers.
Link: A hypertext connection that allows an individual to move to another Web page or another part of the same Web page. Links appear as highlighted text or pictures. To follow a link, you click the highlighted material.
Search engine: A program used to search for information on the World Wide Web. Search engines employ various search algorithms to retrieve Web pages with the information sought.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator): A uniform way of naming network resources that allows for pages on the World Wide Web to be linked.
Web page: A document accessible on the World Wide Web.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1