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Website Credibility Evaluation
Evaluation of Website Credibility

Evaluation of Website Credibility

Familydoctor.org is a website that offers information on a health related topics and wellness. This website has a domain of .org which means it is operated by an organization. The main purpose of this website is to provide families with information on health related topics and offer wellness information that will benefit all members of the family. This website was chosen based on the fact that many people have families. Anyone who is interested in any health topics and/or wellness can find this site by searching in various search engines, such as Google or yahoo, by typing into the search bar family health or whatever health topic of interest.

Evaluation of Credibility

Authority

This website provides information from family practice physicians, medical students and family practice residents. All of the information available on this site has been written and approved by physicians and educators who have expertise in family practice and patient education. The affiliates of familydoctor.org are found on the website along with all of the doctors and educators responsible for the information found on the site. The information on the website goes through an editorial board that reviews the content, and then sends it to a physician of the specialty topic for final review before being placed on the web.

Information

This website is comprised of information that goes through a process of critiquing and evaluating before it is placed on the site. The information is written in a format that is understandable by all, regardless of the education.

Objectivity

The information provided on this site is not objective. The site has a partner and many sister sites that are listed. When health related information is to be displayed on the site by outside sources that information has to go through the same peer reviewing and critiquing that the


References: Anderson, A. & Klemm, P. (2008) The Internet: Friend or foe when providing patient education? Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 12(1) 55-63. National Library of Medicine (2012). Evaluating internet health information. A tutorial from the National Library of Medicine. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html
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