The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading. This short guide contains important questions you should consider as you look for health information online. Answering these questions when you visit a new site will help you evaluate the information you find. The questions include: 1) Who runs this site?, 2) Who pays for the site?, 3) What is the purpose of the site?, 4) Where does the information come from?, 5) What is the basis of the information?, 6) How is the information selected?, 7) How current is the information?, 8) How does the site choose links to other sites?, 9) What information about you does the site collect, and why?, and 10) How does the site manage interactions with visitors? This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.
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