TY - JOUR T1 - Action points JF - Quality and Safety in Health Care JO - Qual Saf Health Care SP - 160 LP - 160 DO - 10.1136/qhc.12.2.160 VL - 12 IS - 2 AU - Tim Albert Y1 - 2003/04/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/12/2/160.abstract N2 - Researchers in Australia surfed the web and found 104 sites in 13 different countries where they could obtain Sudafed and St John’s wort products. The researchers later received products from 27 of these websites. They concluded that the quality of information was poor. Only 63 of the sites had any information, and there were some potentially dangerous omissions: only three suppliers of the St John’s wort provided adequate warnings on the several known dangerous interactions. “We conclude that internet technologies should be used to develop ethical and innovative practice models that make the management of medications for consumers easier, simpler, and safer to achieve positive health outcomes, but surfing and self-medicating is currently not safe”. See page 88 ▸ ACTION POINT Patients may … ER -