Evaluation of criteria for assessing health websites
Table 1: Websites and articles evaluated

URL (20) Organization
www.webfeetguides.com/criteria_WFforHealth.html Web Feet
www.asc.upenn.edu/courses/comm240/medsitecriteria.html University of Pennsylvania
www.meddean.luc.edu/library/WEBEVAL.htm Loyola University – Health Sciences Library
www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html Health On the Net Foundation
www.nnlm.gov/gmr/publish/eval.html National Network of Libraries of Medicine
www.ihealthcaregroup.com/rheumatologyguide/criteria.htm Internet Health Care Group
www.sph.emory.edu/WELLNESS/instrument.html Rollins School of Public Health
hitiweb.mitretek.org/docs/policy.html Mitretek Systems
www.nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_1.htm Kent State University
atlas.ici.ro/ehto/medinf99/papers/criteria_for_evaluating_the_qual.htm Medical Informatics Team Projects
europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/ehealth/quality/draft_guide
lines/index_en.htm
Information Society- European Commission
www.chu-rouen.fr/netscoring/netscoringeng.html Centrale Paris
www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/health/help/ihp/evaluate.shtml University of Manitoba- Health Sciences Libraries
www-personal.umich.edu/%7Epfa/pro/courses/WebEvalNew.pdf University of Michigan
www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/resources/guides/web-evaluation.shtml LHSU-Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana
www.library.dal.ca/kellogg/internet/evaluate.htm Dal Libraries Kellogg library
www.nyu.edu/education/hepr/resources/online/adq.pdf Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences
www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/instruct/evaluate.htm University of Auckland Library
www.ourbodiesourselves.org/eval.htm Boston Women's Health Collective
www.canadian-health-network.ca/html/help/checklist1.html CHN (Canadian Health Network)
Articles (2)
Silberg W, Lundberg G, Musacchio R. Assessing, Controlling, and Assuring the Quality of Medical Information on the Internet: Caveat Lector et Viewor — Let the Reader and Viewer Beware. JAMA 1997; 277:1244-1245.
Nicoll, Leslie H. Quick and Effective Website Evaluation. Lippincott’s Case Management 2001; 6(5):220-221

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