健康醫療網站評鑑指標之建立

Establishing Evaluation Indicators in Health and Medical Websites

在台灣目前約有883萬人上網，約佔全人口之39%，從這些數字看來網路已成為現代人重要的訊息來源，由於醫療網站的數目和人口不斷增加，但對於醫療網站評鑑的相關研究在國內相當少，在國外早已開始注重此醫療網站品質確立及相關研究。為了避免不實的健康知識傳播，應了解醫療網站的評鑑標準，並教導民眾運用批判性思考之能力去判斷搜尋的資料是正確與否。本文主要針對網站的可及性、作者的權威性、內容、資訊的架構與設計、及連接的品質等五項評鑑準則來敘述，期望透過評鑑指標之說明，讓專業人員了解網路評鑑之準則。

The internet has become one of the most popular and frequently used sources of information in Taiwan, where over one-third of the population has online access (at total of 8.8 million users). Health and medical websites have become important information sources for professional care providers, but few evaluations have been made of the more commonly used medical websites in Taiwan. Evaluation criteria for assessing accuracy based on critical thinking skills is required to reduce the amount of misleading information that might be transmitted. The purpose of this paper is to make suggestions for medical website evaluation. Concepts include access, author status, content, information structure and design, and links quality. It is hoped that this information will help Taiwanese medical professionals better assess the quality of currently available healthcare-related websites.