It has been a while since I wrote, but I am doing a PhD on health information literacy and so my efforts have recently been concentrated on that. I have found so many interesting papers and resources, and I do record them on my Netvibes page.
Anyway, one of the resources I have found is the Trust it or trash it? tool, which has been developed by a group calling themselves The Access to Credible Genetics (ATCG) Resource Network. They focus on information quality and completeness for genetic conditions, but the tool can be used to assess the quality of any online resources. It is a simple and easy to follow design, and just makes you think about the provenance of a site before believing its content.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Patient information sources
In addition to NHS Choices, there are other information sources available to patients:
Clinical Knowledge Summaries provide Information for Patients, written for a UK audience. You can browse by title, subject, or publisher. The information has been researched and written by experts, so it is reliable and relevant to the UK audience.
Henry Ford Health System provides an online Health Encyclopaedia, which contains more than 11,000 pages about diseases, symptoms, medical tests, injuries, and other common health and medical questions. This site has been developed for an American audience, and therefore the descriptions and terminology for some procedures and treatments will differ.
EQUIP (Electronic Quality Information for the Public) is an NHS gateway to quality health and social care information for the West Midlands public. There are links to information resources in almost 100 languages and a directory of more than 4,000 national and local support groups and services.
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) aims to provide access to high-quality, full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased. You can browse by health topic or via an A-Z index. Again, as this site has been created for a non-UK audience, please be aware that not everything will apply to you.
The Health on the Net Foundation has developed a set of criteria with which its member sites must comply. Therefore, when you search this site, only sites containing good quality health information will be identified.
Patient UK contains comprehensive health information as provided by GPs and nurses to patients during consultations. There are patient information leaflets, information about medicines and drugs, videos, audio, stories, translated patient information, details of more than 1,800 patient support groups and information for carers.
CAPHIS (consumer and patient health information section) provides a top 100 list of health websites you can trust. It is an American resource, so the sites tend to be American, but it is useful as it only includes resources that meet the quality criteria for currency, credibility, content and audience.
Clinical Knowledge Summaries provide Information for Patients, written for a UK audience. You can browse by title, subject, or publisher. The information has been researched and written by experts, so it is reliable and relevant to the UK audience.
Henry Ford Health System provides an online Health Encyclopaedia, which contains more than 11,000 pages about diseases, symptoms, medical tests, injuries, and other common health and medical questions. This site has been developed for an American audience, and therefore the descriptions and terminology for some procedures and treatments will differ.
EQUIP (Electronic Quality Information for the Public) is an NHS gateway to quality health and social care information for the West Midlands public. There are links to information resources in almost 100 languages and a directory of more than 4,000 national and local support groups and services.
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) aims to provide access to high-quality, full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased. You can browse by health topic or via an A-Z index. Again, as this site has been created for a non-UK audience, please be aware that not everything will apply to you.
The Health on the Net Foundation has developed a set of criteria with which its member sites must comply. Therefore, when you search this site, only sites containing good quality health information will be identified.
Patient UK contains comprehensive health information as provided by GPs and nurses to patients during consultations. There are patient information leaflets, information about medicines and drugs, videos, audio, stories, translated patient information, details of more than 1,800 patient support groups and information for carers.
CAPHIS (consumer and patient health information section) provides a top 100 list of health websites you can trust. It is an American resource, so the sites tend to be American, but it is useful as it only includes resources that meet the quality criteria for currency, credibility, content and audience.
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