Monday, February 23, 2009

What are your patients reading or watching?

Health News Review reviews news stories that make a therapeutic claim about:• Specific treatments• Procedures• Investigational drugs or devices• Vitamins or nutritional supplements• Diagnostic and screening tests A multi-disciplinary team of reviewers from journalism, medicine, health services research and public health assesses the quality of the stories using a standardized rating systerm. Stories are graded and critiques are published on this website.

If your patient asks you about something they heard on the news this site is helpful for evaluating the credibility of the claims.

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