Focusing on Health Information: How to Assess Information Quality on the Internet

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Focusing on Health Information: How to Assess Information Quality on the Internet

The quality of information on the Internet is extremely variable. For health information, where quality can mean the difference between effective management of a health problem and potentially dangerous treatments, tools to assess quality are imperative. Quality, as a characteristic of information,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Haddow, Gaby
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2003
Subjects:	Information quality - Health information - Assessing internet information
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20735

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