title: Vaccination resources for health care providers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To create a quick information evaluation tool (QIET) for judging the quality of online vaccination information sources.
  
  
  METHODS
  This information is intended to be used in a retail or a community pharmacy setting where immunizations are provided.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The tool created can be used by immunization providers and patients to evaluate online sources of vaccination information.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The QIET is a potential resource that can be used by future studies to evaluate the reliability of online vaccine information.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoekstra
authors.forename: Brittany
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Payeur
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D017589:Immunization Programs; D007255:Information Services / Q000592:standards*; D020407:Internet; D015203:Reproducibility of Results