Class One: Finding Online Health Information: Evaluation: Often
Evaluation Criteria: How Often?
Medical information changes quickly. Its important to know that you are getting the latest in research and treatment options when you are searching for health information.
- Look at the bottom of the home page and every page! for copyright information and last date updated
- Treatment and research needs to be current
- Personal stories do not
- If there are links to articles, do they include the dates the articles were written?
- Are there lots of broken links? Thats a sign the web site is not maintained.
Next, if it seems TOO GOOD to be true, it probably is!



