- Accessibility and usability
- Design of health information
- Education and training
- Establishing and running information services
- Evaluating the quality of health information
- Health literacy
- Medicines information
- Patient and public involvement
- Producing/ disseminating health information
- Sourcing health information
- Using electronic media
Evaluating the quality of health information
Featured articles - Introduction
At PiF we are extremely fortunate to have access to an active group of members who are keen to share their knowledge and experience. We have also established excellent links with the great and the good in patient information, which makes it easier to obtain the sort of content you will find in this section of the site:
- Case study - information audit
Beki Moult, Health Information and Language Manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), describes the audit process at GOSH and the development of a new audit tool, EQIP. - Readability statistics
Beki Moult (GOSH) provides us with some useful background information about readability statistics. - DISCERN
Dr Sasha Shepperd, Research Scientist in Evidence Synthesis at the Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, introduces us to the DISCERN instrument which assesses the quality of the content of consumer health information on treatment choices. - JudgeHealth
Sue Childs, Research Fellow at the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, introduces us to this project which aims to judge the quality of health information web sites.
If you would like to contribute to or comment on anything in this section, please email Beki Moult, lead for the Evaluating the Quality of Health Information theme.
Updated 11/01/08
Page last edited: 11 January 2008
