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	4.0 How to help consumers use health information:

		4.1 Promoting the value of information 4.2 Using gateways 4.3 Using search engines 4.4 Search tips and confidence building 4.5 Judging the quality of information 4.6 Managing info in partnership with health professionals

4.5 Judging the quality of information

Give people guidance on how to judge the quality of health information they find on the Internet.

Provide a link to the Judge: Web sites for health, consumer guidelines.

A summary leaflet of the "How to judge" section is available on the Print or download the guidelines page. You can make copies to handout to other people.

Provide links to other quality guidelines. Here are some examples.

BIOME evaluation guidelines (http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/policy.html) [Opens in new browser window]
The health information gateway, Intute: Health and Life Sciences: Medicine (http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medicine/) [Opens in new browser window] is part of Intute (produced by the higher education sector). These guidelines explain how Intute evaluates Internet resources for inclusion in their gateway. (Note: these guidelines are currently being revised.)
The Health On the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode) (http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html) [Opens in new browser window]
HON is a not-for-profit International Swiss Organisation. It has produced a set of eight ethical principles, the HONcode, that Web site producers should abide by. However it does not rate the quality of the information provided by a Web site.

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