Analysis of the acceptance of the internet presentation of the 115th Congress of the German Society of Surgery

: The World Wide Web presentation of the 115th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Surgery was examined with regard to the frequency of hits per day and the use made of the online offers. The high frequency of the hits clearly shows the high acceptance of this medium. The temporal distribution of the hits imply that the group that was aimed at, namely "surgeons", have indeed been reached.