How To Verify A Website
How To Verify A Website
The Health On the Net Foundation (HON) promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
1. Verifying the quality and trustworthiness of a medical website
The HONcode is the most widely accepted reference for online health and medical publishers. Currently the HONcode is used by over 6’500 accredited websites, covering 118 countries.
HONcode Toolbar: search engine and checker of the accreditation status
Automatically checks a site’s HONcode status when browsing health web sites. The search engine indexes only HONcode-accredited sites. HONcodeHunt currently includes millions of accredited medical and health Web pages.
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To download this toolbar go to
2. Compare information from different sources
WRAPIN enables the comparison of health/medical documents in any format (HTML, PDF, etc.) or length with this interconnected knowledge base.
It will allow you to:
1. Tell you if the information exists in the published literature.
2. Provide a summary of the ideas contained in your document.
3. Help to determine the reliability of documents by checking the ideas contained against established benchmarks.
4. Enable users to determine the relevance of a given document from a page of search results.
To make use if this tool go to
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