Website Evaluation
Put on your critical thinking cap when you browse through the websites. Most of us usually look at the top few results when we do a Google search! Rememeber, better sites may be on successive pages. You should be creafully reviewing wensites; make sure the website is a credible one and relevant to your information needs. Generally .edu and .gov pages are reliable but you need to carefully evaluate .com and .org pages. Many libraries and librarians use their own evaluation criteria but most are similar in their essence. I have been using the SCRAP test (acronym) for many years now and have listed that below.
HON Code of Conduct
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 based on the eight principles Look for the Health on the Net (HON) Code of Conduct logo on a website to evaluate reliability.
How to sort trustworthy health online information? Improvements of the automated detection of HONcode criteria - an article from Procedia Computer Science
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.122
Internet Sources
- American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
The ASCLS provides affiliates with many resources and opportunities for professional development, education, research support and advocacy within the field of medical laboratory science.
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
The ASM is a premier source of information on the latest news, research and educational/professional development opportunities for scientists and practioners in the field of microbiology.
- Bloodline - Hematology Education & News
News, select publications and other e-resources for hematology and oncology scientists and practioners.
- Microscopy Society of America
The MSA is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote and advance the techniques and applications of microscopy and microanalysis in all relevant scientific disciplines.
- Laboratory Science, Policy and Practice Program Office
LSPPPO's mission is to "provide leadership, advocacy and cross-cutting services to continuously strengthen the quality of laboratory science, policy and practice at CDC, in the U.S. and globally."
- ARUP's Laboratory Test Directory
"ARUP's Laboratory Test Directory contains complete, up-to-date test information, including methodology and reporting times, collection and transportation specifications, reference intervals, test notes, and CPT codes."
- Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Recommendations and ratings of top articles in medicine from leading scientists and clinicians.
Tutorials/Other Resources
- Blood Banking - from Mercer University School of Medicine, University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library
- Biology Project - Immunology - from Univ. of Arizona
- Life's Blood - ABO Discrepancies - Class notes by Prof. by M. Schroeder and M. Jensen
- Medical Microbiology 4th edition - Editor: Samuel Baron. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, 1996. ISBN-10: 0-9631172-1-1
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
