Sarah,
I have recently put in a grant application to do a full evalutation of EQUIP - www.equip.nhs.uk .Although patient groups have been involved in checking individual health topics, and informal reviews have been done by individuals, a review of the website as a whole is a crucial part of the user involvement process. We need to hold a formal evaluation of the whole website to ensure that the valuable resources held on the website are easy to find and intuitive. We plan to follow the type of evaluation carried out on a similar health website, ‘Surgery Door’, which is reported in “Surfing for health: user evaluation of a health information website. Part two: fieldwork” P. Williams et al Health Information and Libraries Journal, 19, pp.214-225. In this paper, the researchers interviewed 20 students for their opinions of the website and then recorded their actions when set retrieval tasks on the site.
I would be happy to share the plans with you if you would like to know more.
Sarah
Sarah Greening
Patient Information Intelligence Officer
West Midlands Library Services Development Unit
Public Health Building
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT
0121 414 7754
EQUIP - Quality Information for Patients
www.equip.nhs.uk
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