Internet for Health Professionals

The Internet is open to anyone to put up a Web page.  As a result, one must be critical of the information retrieved form the Internet.  This is particularly important for health/medical information. 

As you review the various resources on the Web, keep in mind these criteria for evaluating quality:

• Credibility (source, context, currency, relevance)
• Content (accuracy, sources stated, evidence)
• Disclosure (purpose of site, profiling)
• Links (selection, architecture, content, back linkages)
• Design (accessibility, logical organization)
• Interactivity (feedback, chat, tailoring)
• Caveats (product marketing or information content provider)

From: Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet at the following URL: http://www.mitretek.org/hiti/showcase/documents/criteria.html