Table of Contents
Useful Ways of Thinking About Quality
What is Information Quality?
Quality is a JUDGMENT made:
Quality is Situational
Quality is Situational (cont.)
Approaches to Information Quality
Approaches to Information Quality
Evidence-based medicine
Quality judgments of specific information are made on selected characteristics of that information.
Characteristics of information affecting quality judgments
What is the information being judged?
How was the information created?, e.g.,
Who is involved in producing the information?
Why was the information created?
How is it related to other information?
What filtering processes were used?, e.g.,
Improving Quality Judgments:.General Strategies
All three strategies are worth pursuing:
Quality is a JUDGMENT made:
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Author: Jana Bradley
Email: nichsr@nlm.nih.gov
Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nyam/nyam.html
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