The eMedicine website consists of approximately 6,800 medical topic review articles, each of which is associated with a clinical subspecialty "textbook".
Several years were spent creating the tables of contents, recruiting expert physicians and in the creation of the additional 6,100+ medical and surgical articles.
In the early 2000s Plantz and Lorenzo also spearheaded an alliance with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to accredit eMedicine content for physician, nursing, and pharmacy continuing education.
They found Wikipedia, eMedicine, and MedlinePlus (United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) were the most referenced sources.
They concluded "Knowledge of the quality of available information on the Internet improves pediatric otolaryngologists' ability to counsel parents.
eMedicine is made up of articles translating the body of current research in Medline into clinical practice guidelines from the perspective of each subspeciality.
[1] Cao, Liu, Simpson, et al revealed that Medline and eMedicine were used as primary resources in developing the online system AskHERMES.
[8] Physicians were asked to solve complex clinical problems using three different sources of information: AskHermes, Google and UpToDate.
[citation needed] A 2009 study showed that "89.1% of ophthalmologist respondents accessed peer-reviewed material online, including Emedicine (60.2%).