Nursing: Patient Education & Consumer Health

The HONcode certification is an ethical standard created to ensure the quality of online health information.

An Instrument To Assess the Understandability and Actionability of Print and Audiovisual Patient Education Materials (Version 1.0)

SAM, the Suitability Assessment of Materials instrument offers a systematic method to objec-tively assess the suitability of health information materials for a particular audience in a short time.

DISCERN is a brief questionnaire which provides users with a valid and reliable way of assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem. DISCERN can also be used by authors and publishers of information on treatment choices as a guide to the standard which users are entitled to expect.