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Evaluating Internet Resources

by Frank Davis, Information and Education Services, and Rick Brewer, Access Services, Medical Center Library, University of Kentucky
Updated: June 3, 2002

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
Tips on Evaluating Web Resources This site is from the Greater Midwest Region, National Network/Libraries of Medicine.
10 Things to Know about Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web The National Cancer Institute hosts this site. It contains basic questions that are used to determine the validity of medical web resources.
Understanding URLs This is a concise overview from the University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library
Common Error Messages This page lists Internet numerical error codes and explanations. It is maintained by the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University.
Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice This site has compiled the complete set of Users' Guides to reading the medical literature that were originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The site is maintained by the Canadian Centres for Health Evidence.
Publications
Code of conduct for medical and health Web sites from the Health On the Net Foundation.
Coiera E. Information economics and the Internet. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2000 May; 7(3): 215-221.
Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet from the Health Information Technology Institute
Kim P, et al. Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review. BMJ. 1999 Mar 6; 318(7184): 647-649.
Winker MA, et al. Guidelines for medical and health information sites on the Internet: principles governing AMA web sites. JAMA. 2000 Mar 22; 283(12): 1600-1606.
Wyatt JC. Commentary: Measuring quality and impact of the World Wide Web BMJ. 1997 June 28; 314(7098): 1879-1881.


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