Accessing Reliable Health Information on the Web: A Review of the HON Approach
Boyer, Gaudinat, Hanbury, Appel, Ball, Carpentier, van Bemmel, Bergmans, Hochstrasser, Lindberg, Miller, Peterschmitt, Safran, Thonnet, Geissbühler (2017) Accessing Reliable Health Information on the Web: A Review of the HON Approach Stud Health Technol Inform (IF: -1) 245 1004-1008Abstract
Accessing online health content of high quality and reliability presents challenges. Laypersons cannot easily differentiate trustworthy content from misinformed or manipulated content. This article describes complementary approaches for members of the general public and health professionals to find trustworthy content with as little bias as possible. These include the Khresmoi health search engine (K4E), the Health On the Net Code of Conduct (HONcode) and health trust indicator Web browser extensions.
