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Vaccination resources for health care providers
Objective:
To create a quick information evaluation tool (QIET) for judging the quality of online vaccination information sources.
Setting:
This information is intended to be used in a retail or a community pharmacy setting where immunizations are provided.
Practice:
The tool created can be used by immunization providers and patients to evaluate online sources of vaccination information.
Description:
The tool is the result of a consensus from surveyed websites that provide ways to evaluate the reliability of online information. These websites were highlighted as reliable resources in the American Pharmacists Association's (APhA) Immunization Handbook.
Practice Innovation:
Several websites provide ways to evaluate the reliability of online vaccine information; however, none were found that provided a consensus from several websites and examples of how to evaluate online information. This tool provides that consensus.
Interventions:
This tool provides a way to judge the merits of online immunization information using a single set of useful criteria in place of various criteria listed in many different sources.
Evaluation:
This tool will be successful if immunization providers and patients can use it to choose reliable sources of online vaccination information.
Results:
Using the QIET, several non-APhA sources are evaluated.
Conclusion:
The QIET is a potential resource that can be used by future studies to evaluate the reliability of online vaccine information.
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