Comparing Google With A Focused Diabetes Search Engine

Diabetes Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparing Google With A Focused Diabetes Search Engine

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01080976
• Other study ID #: 2009P000356
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 3, 2010
• Last updated: February 1, 2018
• Start date: March 2010
• Est. completion date: September 2010

Study information

• Verified date: February 2018
• Source: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Abstract Diabetes behavior can be influenced by patients exploring diabetes topics that may lack scientific credibility. The question this study examines is whether a Google or Health on the Net (HON) internet search, presents websites that would incline a more or less likely recommendation to patients ? A preliminary trial suggests that referrers recommend websites based on rules that may prioritize website source over content. This study will qualitatively assess the rules that participants use in deciding which websites are more suitable than others.

Method The investigators will inject a diabetes related search term into a HON and a Google search engine. The top 5 mutually exclusive websites from each search engine will be presented to 5 people from three groups stratified across endocrinologists, informaticians and PCPs. Participants will rank the websites and then identify the rules that they applied to reach their decision.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: September 2010
• Est. primary completion date: September 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• physician, informatician, diabetologist

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diabetes
• Diabetes Mellitus

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Charles Safran	Brookline	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Website Ranking	Primary care and diabetes clinicians' preference in a set of webpage search results on a visual analog scale (1-100) with 1 being the lowest preference and 100 being the highest. Rankings based on qualitative measures, such as perceived clinical relevance, perceived accuracy of content, and perceived timeliness of content.	Immediate
Primary	Search Engine Preference	Based on the results of primary outcome 1 (Website Ranking), preference for search engine was measured qualitatively between Google and Health-on-the-Net.	Immediate