“Alerts News”, service from the Google search machine “Alerts News”, service from the Google search machine. Use on geriatrics and gerontology Bernardini D., Macias Nuñez J., Kaplan R. Medicine Department, School of Medicine Universidad de Salamanca IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Objetives To evaluate use and utility of “Alerts News” service from the Google search machine in geriatrics and gerontology IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Method (1) Keyword: “Ageing” Language: Spanish Collection frequency: Diary Collection period: From July/01 to the Diciember/31, 2004 IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Method (2) Terms classification according to Mesh and RAE dictionnary Quantification and analysis: - N° of messages - N° of news and country origin - Spanish news were classified by autonomic community IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Results (1) During 184 days we received 130 mails with 285 references of news Result will be grouped according to: - News country origin - CCAA news origin, in spanish news - By cluster and keywords IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
Results (2) by countries IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Results (3) by CCAA IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Results (3) by cluster IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro
Results (4) by keyword * Se incluye financiación, gastos, protección social, economía y sistema sanitario
IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro Conclusions We consider that the vast majority of the news is useful to health professionals. However we can recognized that the global and dynamic character of the web, as well as limitations of keyword system can diminish rigorousness of the service. IAG Congress 2005 – Rio de Janeiro