Guides: Guide for Finding and Understanding Health Information: How Do I Know If This Is Accurate Health Information?

How Do I Know If This Is Accurate Health Information?

How To Evaluate Online Health Information

MedlinePlus: Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine: This resource was created by MedlinePlus, an online health information resource for patients and their families. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Unraveling Misinformation: Evaluating Health Websites & Apps: Aman Kaur, the Health Literacy Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library, created and presented these slides describing the Genetic Alliance's "Trust It or Trash It?" model for evaluating online health information at an in-person workshop the Blackwell Regional Library of West Philadelphia on Thursday March 7, 2024.

How To SIFT through Misinformation

Temple University Libraries: How to Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace back to original content (SIFT): This tutorial created by Temple University Libraries will help you define types of information disorder, identify fact-checking tools used to determine the trustworthiness of recent news content, and apply the SIFT method to help verify information online

FactCheck.org: This website is a nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer advocate website for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players. The website is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the University of Pennsylvania.

PolitiFact: Health Check: A fact checking website run by a group of independent journalists and editors associated with the non-profit Poynter Media Institute.

University of California San Francisco (UCSF): COVID-19 Face Check: Website created by a group of medical students from the UCSF with the goal of creating a reliable and easy-to-understand information source about corona virus.

For Educators

MedlinePlus Tutorial for Librarians and Health Educators: MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).