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Large Scale ElementsThe solution to the consumer information site is first to build the professional information site.Professional SiteThe majority of journal readers want to get up to speed on the status and direction of research on a broad front.In Wisdoc, clinician-researchers select sufficient research and review articles to define the current status of the field. This may vary from a few dozen to several hundred articles depending on the disease. This list is then updated on a 2-week cycle. Professional Text Account - this is multi-faceted and combines the perspectives from internal medicine, surgery, primary care, screening, and prevention. The text is pitched at the level a specialist would use to explain the rationale for a treatment or diagnostic decision to a specialist from a different field or to a primary care physician. The text is sourced from all 6 strata of professional information described above. Site Design ElementsThe highly skewed distribution of diseases means that selecting just the top 20 diseases in terms of frequency and severity will cover more than 90% of the major health problems of the developed world.Use of standard components within each disease. The rate of change varies widely from one component to another. A revisiting clinician may need to look only at treatment while safely skipping the other 15 or so components. Consumer LevelExperienced literate GPs will be used to translate the professional text into high school level consumer text. This will be edited by journalists experienced in medical matters and then rechecked by the specialist who wrote the professional account to detect any possible drift in essential meaning. The community site will be updated on a continuous 6-week cycle, i.e., material appearing in the professional text would reach the consumer site 2 weeks later. |