Judge: web sites for health - consumer guidelines - how to judge

	2.0 How to judge:

		2.1 Trust and reputation 2.2 Who produced the site 2.3 Purpose of the site 2.4 Funding sources 2.5 Date 2.6 How the information is written 2.7 Descriptions of conditions and treatments 2.8 Medical research 2.9 Personal experiences 2.10 Foreign sites 2.11 Communication 2.12 Links 2.13 Disclaimers 2.14 Kitemarks 2.15 Design 2.16 Interactive facilities 2.17 Other quality guidelines

2.12 Links

Links to other Web sites can be useful sources of information.

The site should explain why they have chosen these links and how they judged the quality of the sites they are linking to.

It should be made clear that you are linking to another site, for example:

a message saying you are leaving the current site;

a new browser window opening when you click on the link.

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