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1. A study on examining the QUALITY of health information and
health-related information sources
examined 41
online health-
related webpages
that provided
information on
children’s feverish
found that only
4 websites
provide
relevant
information
by comparing it
with
recommendations
from traditional
professional
guidelines
Impicciatore, P., Pandolfini, C., Casella, N., & Bonati, M. (1997). Reliability of health information for the public
on the World Wide Web: systematic survey of advice on managing fever in children at home. BMJ (British
Medical Journal), 314(7098), 1875-9.

2. • Jadad and Gagliardi (1998) found 47
DIFFERENT RATING TOOLS that are used by
health-oriented websites to evaluate
information on their sources
• Bernstam, Shelton, Walji and Meric-
Bernstram (2004), studied instrument s for
identifying quality of health information
online by ePatients without the supervision
of medical professional found 273 UNIQUE
INSTRUMENTS

3. Scholars, however, argued that still there is NO
UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENT to MEASURE the
quality of health information CONTENT and
sources on the INTERNET

4. Meanwhile, the availability of different
instruments makes possible further
development of a CENTRALIZED
INSTRUMENT for the assessment of
health information – example HON
project