Developing and applying a checklist for evaluating the quality of health information on the internet

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 872-878

  Spranca, Mark ^a   Culjak, Gordana ^b  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Checklist; Depression; Evaluation; Internet; Quality; Website

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WEBSITES;

HEALTH INFORMATION WEBSITES; HEALTH WEBSITE QUALITY CHECKLIST; INFORMATION QUALITY;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34247356046     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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