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Radiocast: How to Find Good Information Online
Rand: This is Healthcare 411: Information for better health. It’s easy to
find health advice on the Internet, but how do you know if you can trust it?
AHRQ Director Dr. Carolyn Clancy offers tips for getting quality information
online.
Dr. Clancy: The best way to identify a reliable source of information is
one that is very clear and transparent about where that information comes from.
If they are, for example, citing scientific studies or point you in the
direction of getting additional information, and are very even-handed in the way
the information is presented, the likelihood that what they’re presenting is
reliable. In particular for health, the Department of Health and Human Services
has a site called
healthfinder.gov. That site has information that’s very helpful itself, but
also serves as a point of entry and access to many, many other Web sites that
are really wonderful.
Rand: Healthcare 411 is produced by AHRQ, the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
I’m Rand Gardner for Healthcare 411.
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