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Evaluating Internet Resources

Health Professionals and consumers need to know how to evaluate health and biomedical information on the Internet. Listed below are links to Web resources and references to articles that will assist in the evaluative process.



Web Resources Descriptions
Evaluating World Wide Web Information Designed at Purdue University this checklist
provides basic criteria and illustrates a typical
Web page layout and information format.
Guide to Analyzing a URL and Domain
Name Extensions
Learn about URLs (Uniform Resources Locators)
and what extensions, such as .org, mean.
The World Wide Web: A New Patent
Medicine Show?
A brief article by Lynne Fox that provides
tips on evaluating health resources on the Internet.


Publications
Jadad AR et al. Rating Health Information on the Internet:
Navigating to knowledge or to Babel
JAMA. 1998 Feb. 25;279(8): 611-614
Silberg WM, et al. Assessing, controlling, and assuring the quality of medical
information on the Internet: Caveant lector et viewor--Let the reader and viewer beware

JAMA. 1997 Apr 16; 277(15): 1244-1245
Wyatt JC. Commentary: Measuring Quality and Impact of the World Wide Web
BMJ 1997 June 28;314(7098): 1879-1881
Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet
from the Health Information Technology Institute
Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites
from the Health On the Net Foundation.


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Last revision: September 3, 1998.
URL for current page: http://healthweb.org/guides/eval.htm
Questions and comments to Kellie Kaneshiro kkaneshi@iupui.edu