Challenges and Solutions for Minds Website that Provides Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Web

Abstract

　Minds website has been continuously providing medical information on the Internet with a focus on clinical practice guidelines since 2002. This study was conducted with the aim of revealing future challenges of Minds website by analyzing results of a questionnaire survey regarding user satisfaction. Survey method was online self-administered questionnaire. Study population was users registered at the Minds website. The number of responders to the questionnaire was 2,940. Response rate was 8.2%. With regards to the question “if the purpose of usage was achieved”, the rates of positive answers were high in medical students for “study or knowledge acquisition purpose (23 persons, 53.5%)” and in health-care providers for “medical examination purpose (82 persons, 50.0%)”. Those whose purpose of usage was satisfied had used many kinds of contents and the answer rate of “contents were helpful” was high. We would like to handle the challenges for Minds website that were revealed by this study by addressing the issues and making improvements in the system and its operation.