Ian:
After reading your website reviews, I feel that you did an excellent job
with your discussion of the two best and the two worst features of your
sites. Overall, I feel that you have met most of the requirements for the
assignment.

There are just a few areas where I feel that you could improve your
finished assignment. I had problems actually getting to the information
pertaining to your topic on http://www.medico8,com/. I suggest using a
direct link to the pertinent information instead of linking to the
homepage. The homepage is very busy and confusing, and it has a great
deal of information that doesn’t pertain to your focus subject.

You may also want to elaborate in more depth regarding how your websites
relate back to the basic anatomy and physiology of the body. I know that
they relate, but it may be more effective if you explain the relationship
in a little more detail. I feel that “polymyalgia rheumatica” was an
excellent choice, but I would like to see you tie things together with our
course work. Also, just a quick reminder to check your grammar and
sentence structure; It is helpful to write in a word processing program
and then copy to Quick Topic.

I enjoyed reading your reviews and browsing your websites. Good luck with
the remainder of Anatomy and Physiology I.
Nancy J. Burgeson

To: Ian de la Houssaye
From: Celia Lyon-Dannison

After reading your web review for the Mayo Clinic site, I feel you have addressed all of the elements that were required. However, you may want to check your sentence structure and grammar throughout. In particular, you may want to focus on sentence 2 and sentence 8. The web page worked fine.

You did a nice job of summarizing likes and dislikes about the review. Perhaps there could be more detailed information as to how this specifically affects the body from an anatomy/physiology perspective.

Upon reading the midic8 website, I feel that you have met the required elements. However, did you intend for this site to only take us to medic8 page and then we type in polymyalgia rheumatica? If not, you may want to change the website so it goes directly to the relevant page.

Once again, you did a great job at detailing your likes and dislikes from this website. Good job!

http://www.medic8.com:
A good beginning fact sheet
By: Ian de la Houssaye

Medic8 is an online UK medical information website for healthcare professionals and consumers around the world and presents information approved by a doctor. The topics covered on this website pertaining to PMR is a general overview which is easy to read and understand without any jumping to different pages.
This website relates to the topics we covered in this course by discussing how this disease can affect one’s everyday life. Polymyalgia rheumatica is usually first noticeable by muscle stiffness and pain in various parts of the body. Giant cell artertitis is a condition that can accompany PMR and is extremely debilitating. This website gives a great description of what this disease can look like and gives a great description of some of the early sign and symptoms which can include pain in the jaw and temples as well as blurred or double vision.
This website is a great fact sheet with a lot of information contained within its one page. The best features of this website include the ease and concise nature which the information is presented and that it is an easy to read one page fact sheet about the disease. The website is well written and contains a mixture of some of the basics of this disease as well as some more details that someone who possibly has this disease or someone who knows someone else who has this disease might want to know. One of the downfalls to this website was that it does not have any web links that the site itself supported and had a Google ad that suggested further reading on topics similar to this disease. I thought this could be misleading for someone who did not realize the disclaimer of “Ads by Google” followed by a list of websites and that they were posted in two separate parts of the website. The other downside to this website is that it did not provide any real information pertaining to what sort of research is being done to better treatments for this disease, especially considering that it is written by a group that has all of its information confirmed by doctors.

http://www.mayoclinic.com:
An easy to navigate beginning to understanding PMR
By: Ian de la Houssaye

The Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice that has a world-wide reputation with three main locations in Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida. This organization is providing information pertaining to this topic because one of its major underpinnings its reputation for academic education. The internet is an easy way to provide this information to a broad range of people worldwide. The topics covered in this website are a general overview of PMR covering signs and symptoms to treatment and self care for this condition.
Polymylagia rheumatica is an autoimmune disease, but it does affect different aspects of the skeletal and muscular parts of the body. This website details how the muscles are affected by feeling of stiffness and pain primarily in the neck, shoulders, upper arms, thighs and hips. Also the website includes the side effects of certain treatments. One is from of taking corticosteroid drugs, which is one of the main cures known for this disease, leaves the patient more susceptible to osteoporosis and muscle fatigue.
The best features of this website are the easiness at which the website is accessed and the manner in which someone could quickly understand the basics of what this disease entails and what treatments are out there. This link, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/polymyalg.../DS00441/DSECTION=1, illustrates the ease at which the website is accessed by its easy to use article sections list to choose from. One of the downfalls of this website is that it does not go into any great detail the variety of drug treatments and alternative treatments that currently exist. The other negative aspect to this website is the amount of technical detail included in the descriptions. I believe that the website could have another section that could go into more medical detail about all of the topics it covers.

TO: Ian de la Houssaye
FROM: Celia Lyon-Dannison

Regarding the medic8 website, I found it to provide a good overview of polymyalgia. The information was straight forward and written with the average person in mind. I liked the healthline.com link, but didn’t care for the other two links. One was nothing but an advertisement and the other had numerous medical conditions and one would have to search for items related to polymyalgia. I didn’t care for all the additional information which was found on the medic8 homepage. There were numerous medical conditions listed off to the side that had no correlation to the topic at hand and it appeared “busy.”

I found the Mayo Clinic website to be of good quality. It was an easy read with a nice index of article selections. After each of the selections, it offered “more on this topic.” It was quick and easy to use. There was validity and integrity to the information and the site was easily navigated. I would be hard pressed to state the negatives regarding this website.

Holy Cow! The MedicineNet.com website had A LOT going on. Between the advertisement, the health news of the week, recipes, other stories (just to name a few), I forgot what I was there for. It didn’t get a whole lot easier once I typed polymyalgia into the search box. I found this site very difficult to navigate and frustrating. I would click on one area and get numerous selections of top results from healthline and top results from the web. I’m sure there was probably a plethora of information regarding this topic if I had the patience to continue.

I liked the personal story from the nursing.advanceweb.com site. It was an interesting perspective from someone in the health profession suffering from this condition. However, if I were the average person trying to gather additional information regarding polymyalgia, this site certainly didn’t provide additional links or any other additional information pertaining to the topic at hand. If I were the target audience (nurse), it provided numerous topics in other areas.

Ian, interesting topic and great websites. Either the story in ADVANCE for nurses or the Medic8 woudl be good minor pages to reviews. The other two are more major website..I probably prefer Mayo to Medicinnet as a principal soruce of info.

Thanks for your peer reviews.
LF
Choose topic: 10 points
Find four websites: 20 points
Peer reviews: 10 points

1. The Medic8 website was extremely informative. The two best things I liked about the website was: it was very descriptive of the disease and its treatments. The two worst things I found about the website was: when it refers to the outlook it doesn’t really say if there is any continuing research or if anything else looks hopeful for a cure.

2. The Mayo Clinic website had good information. The two best things I liked about the website was: the amount of info available as well as how it broke the topic down, intro…signs and symptoms…causes …risk factors…etc. The two worst things I found about the website was: no additional links or other references sited.

3. The MedicineNet website is very in depth. The two best things I liked about the website was: lots and lots of information and also talked about additional medications for treatment. The two worst things I found about the website was: almost to easy to become distracted or overwhelmed with the amount of information available.

4. The AdvanceWeb site offered a great personal story. The two best things I liked about the website was: it put feelings and a real person into the story of a disease rather than signs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments. The two worst things I found about the website was: I could actually begin to understand and feel the disease with Eileen. I didn’t like what I felt! Wait that was just good writing!

 TO: Ian de la Houssaye
FROM: Celia Lyon-Dannison

Regarding the medic8 website, I found it to provide a good overview of polymyalgia. The information was straight forward and written with the average person in mind. I liked the healthline.com link, but didn’t care for the other two links. One was nothing but an advertisement and the other had numerous medical conditions and one would have to search for items related to polymyalgia. I didn’t care for all the additional information which was found on the medic8 homepage. There were numerous medical conditions listed off to the side that had no correlation to the topic at hand and it appeared “busy.”

I found the Mayo Clinic website to be of good quality. It was an easy read with a nice index of article selections. After each of the selections, it offered “more on this topic.” It was quick and easy to use. There was validity and integrity to the information and the site was easily navigated. I would be hard pressed to state the negatives regarding this website.

Holy Cow! The MedicineNet.com website had A LOT going on. Between the advertisement, the health news of the week, recipes, other stories (just to name a few), I forgot what I was there for. It didn’t get a whole lot easier once I typed polymyalgia into the search box. I found this site very difficult to navigate and frustrating. I would click on one area and get numerous selections of top results from healthline and top results from the web. I’m sure there was probably a plethora of information regarding this topic if I had the patience to continue.

I liked the personal story from the nursing.advanceweb.com site. It was an interesting perspective from someone in the health profession suffering from this condition. However, if I were the average person trying to gather additional information regarding polymyalgia, this site certainly didn’t provide additional links or any other additional information pertaining to the topic at hand. If I were the target audience (nurse), it provided numerous topics in other areas.

http://www.medic8.com/skin-bone-muscle/polymyalgia-rheumatica.htm

Medic8 is an online UK medical information website for healthcare
professionals and consumers around the world and presents information approved by a doctor. The topics covered on this website pertaining to PMR is a general overview which is easy to read and understand without any jumping to different pages.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/polymyalgia-rheumatica/DS00441

The Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice that has a world wide reputation with three main locations in Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida. This organization is providing information pertaining to this topic because one of its major underpinnings its reputation for academic education and the internet is an easy way to provide this information to a broad range of people worldwide. The topics covered in this website is a general overview of PMR covering signs and symptoms to treatment and self care for this condition.

http://www.medicinenet.com/polymyalgia_rheumatica/article.htm

Medicinenet is an online healthcare media publishing company. The information on the website is produced by practicing physicians designed to educate the general public. This website provides the basic information for the disease that has crosslinks to various aspects of it such as specific drugs and a glossary of terms.

http://nursing.advanceweb.com/editorial/co...orial.aspx?cc=79942

ADVANCE for Nurses is a biweekly publication for people in the nursing field which provides practical information on clinical, management, professional and career development issues for nurses. The reason I chose this selection from this website is because of the personal story of someone living with this condition and her relevent perspective in the nursing field.

I have chosen polymyalgia rheumatica as my topic for this assignment. PMR is described as a form of athritis that causes pain in various muscles throughout the body. The way PMR pertains to this course is that it involves the muscular system in the body. My personal interest in this topic stems from a family member being diagnosed with this condition a few years ago. I am interested in understanding more about this condition and different forms of treatment for this condition.