References for this Presentation:

• Rodrigues, D. (1997). The research paper and the World Wide Web. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet

Other Resources:

• Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
• Consumer Health & Medical Information on the Internet
• Evaluating the Quality of Internet Information Sources
• Evaluating Quality on the Net
• The Web as a Research Tool: Evaluation Techniques
• Web Evaluation Techniques: Bibliography

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1. The Medline database, BMJ 1997;315:180-183 (19 July)
2. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about), BMJ 1997;315:243-246 (26 July)
3. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers, BMJ 1997;315:305-308 (2 August)
4. Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests, BMJ 1997;315:364-366 (9 August)
5. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls, BMJ 1997;315:422-425 (16 August)
6. Papers that report drug trials, BMJ 1997;315:480-483 (23 August)
7. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests, BMJ 1997;315:540-543 (30 August)
8. Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses), BMJ 1997;315:596-599 (6 September)
9. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), BMJ 1997;315:672-675 (13 September)
10. Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research), BMJ 1997;315:740-743 (20 September)