Reviews of the Virtual Children's Hospital

1. Medical Journals
   1. Modern Physician - March 12, 2001 (review)

      "Focusing on children's health, Virtual Children's Hospital offers a section for parents to peruse as well as one for healthcare providers. "Common problems" provides descriptive overviews from everything from acne to well-child care. "For patients" provides exhaustive educational information on just about every medical topic of interest. Links to other sites expand even further on pediatric topics."

   2. Internet Medicine, A Critical Guide - January 2001 (review)

      "For general practitioners who see children but not often enough to have some of the basics right on the tip of the brain, Common Problems from the University of Iowa's Virtual Children's Hospital, is a short manual on the basics. This list of Web sites efficiently covers topics ranging from acne to well-child visits. The links lead directly to short treatment guides from authoritative sources."

   3. Medicine On the Net - January 1999 (review)

      "The Virtual Children's Hospital has tons of material geared to kids."

   4. COR Health - Healthcare Guide to the Internet (review)

      "A service of Children's Hospital of Iowa, this site offers information for children, parents, and healthcare professionals. The section for healthcare providers presents an exciting collection of medical information, while giving medical students and pediatric radiologists the chance to access customized views of the information."

2. Newspapers
   1. Malay Mail - March 3, 2001

      "The Virtual Children's Hospital provides paediatric-related information from the Children's Hospital of Iowa. This website provides educational materials for healthcare providers in the form of multimedia textbooks, teaching files, patient simulations and lectures. And if you are a patient, look here for the Iowa Health Book of educational materials in the form of brochures and books. There is also information for health care providers and patients on common medical problems."

   2. Wall Street Journal - December 23, 1998

      "Virtual Children's Hospital is listed as one of the three most reliable pediatric Internet resources."

3. Internet Guides
   1. Health Care Resources on the Internet - 2000

      "A parallel site (to Virtual Hospital) is the Virtual Children's Hospital, laid out similar to the main Virtual Hospital site, but containing information specific to pediatrics. As with the main site, there is a wealth of full-text information as well as carefully selected links, and the user can access the information via word searching or by following the hierarchially structured links."

   2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Medical Resources - 2000

      "The Children's Hospital of Iowa presents a varied and helpful assortment of patient information guides to children's illness, emergency information, and parenting tips."

   3. The Annual Consumer's Guide to Health and Medicine on the Internet - 2000

      "Information for patients, children, and health care providers."

   4. Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages Millenium Edition

      "Digital library of authoritative pediatric info for primary care providers and patients. Offers a database of resources on illnesses and links."

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