Skip to main content

Use good quality information - check your sources

By

 The Internet is a great place to start looking for information and there are some great healthcare based resources available. In your work and studies you need to make sure that you are using good quality, relevant information. 

So, how can you make sure that what you find fits that criteria?

Make sure you have the right skills to separate the good stuff from the bad. Here's how:

From the Health Library

Start with a quick checklist - watch this introduction to the CRAAP checklist


Complete our presentation Evaluating Information on the Internet for more information about the checklist.

Here are some more resources you might like to look at:

How can you spot Fake News?

Check a fact checker - they do the work for you

  • Full Fact Health Full Fact is a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm done by bad information. 

  • Health feedback Health Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in health and medical media coverage.   

Be careful of information being shared on social media

  • SHARE checklist to help you spot false information and make sure you don't spread harmful content. 


#HIW2022
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hot Topics! Get the latest evidence for health topics in the news

By
 Seen a health topic in the news? Want to be ready for your patient's questions? Need to know the latest evidence? Check out our Hot Topic! blog posts. We post the latest evidence from key, high quality resources such as BMJ Best Practice, Clinical Key Overviews, Oxford handbooks and more, on health topics in the news. Recent topics include: Heat stroke Diabetes - type 1 Asthma Ebola Hantavirus Endometriosis To view all the latest topics go to our Information Skills for Health blog .
Post a Comment
Read more

Access NHS online resources from one place

By
 A wealth of online, health-care specific resources are available to NHS staff. You can easily and quickly access these resources from the Health Library web pages: NHS resources for UHNM staff NHS resources for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare staff NHS resources for staff working for the ICB and GP practices in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Why use our web pages? You'll get a list of all the resources available to you Where possible we link you straight to the NHS OpenAthens login page Institution-specific links are available if necessary You can link to help pages if you need more support Need more help? Contact the Health Library for more help accessing resources and to get the information you need.
Post a Comment
Read more