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MedlinePlus: Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial From the National Library of Medicine URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html Description: "This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information that you find on the Web. It is about 16 minutes long." It walks consumers through the process of determining who is behind a website (such as a physician or a drug company), separating noncommercial and commercial content (such as advertising), checking to make sure the site is current, and more. From the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Publisher: National Library of Medicine (NLM); National Institutes of Health (NIH) Extra Keywords medline plus Library of Congress Subject Headings: Health -- Computer network resources Medicine -- Computer network resources Web sites -- Evaluation LII Database Information: Record 20910 created by Jennifer English on 03/13/2006 Last modification on 03/28/2006 Published: 03/30/2006 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20910 |