LibGuides: Occupational Therapy Assistant: Consumer/Patient Health Resources

Evaluating Health Sites

Separate the Trash from the Treasures!

Who sponsored it? Who wrote it?
How credible are they?
Tip: pharmaceutical companies are not unbiased!
Accuracy
Is it factual or opinion-based?
Is the information verifiable?
Currency
Is the information recent?
Audience
Was it written for professionals or patients?

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
MLA's Guide to Evalauting Health Websites
More information on evaluating health websites
Quack Watch
Search this website for medical hoaxes. Reliable consumer health information is included.

MEDLINE Plus
A consumer-oriented Website established by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library. It searches many excellent websites. LIBRARIAN'S #1 CHOICE!

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Diseases, conditions, and other special topics arranged under "Health Topics A-Z," and "Travelers' Health". There are also sections on health topics in the news and health hoaxes. Also in Spanish.
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Diseases, conditions, health topics, traveling & health, health hoaxes, etc.
Healthfinder.gov
Reliable consumer health information collected by the government such as: online journals, medical dictionaries, minority health, and prevention and self-care, etc.
Kidshealth.org
Doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information.
Mayo Clinic
Editors of the site include more than 2,000 physicians, scientists, writers, and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit institution with more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research, and education. The Website has added interactive