Boyer C, Selby M, Scherrer J R, Appel R D
Health On the Net Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
Comput Biol Med. 1998 Sep;28(5):603-10. doi: 10.1016/s0010-4825(98)00037-7.
Internet has become one of the most used communication media. This and the fact that no constraining information publishing policy exists have created an urgent need to control the quality of information circulating through this media. To this purpose, the Health On the Net Foundation has initiated the Code of Conduct (HONcode) for the health/medical domain. This initiative proposes guidelines to information providers, with the aim, on the one hand, of raising the quality of data available on the Net and, on the other hand, of helping to identify Internet sites that are maintained by qualified people and contain reliable data. The HONcode mainly includes the following ethical aspects: the author's credentials, the date of the last modification with respect to clinical documents, confidentiality of data, source data reference, funding and the advertising policy. This article presents the HONcode and its evolution since it was launched in 1996.
互联网已成为使用最为广泛的通信媒介之一。鉴于此，且不存在约束性的信息发布政策，因此迫切需要对通过该媒介传播的信息质量加以控制。为此，健康在线基金会发起了针对健康/医学领域的行为准则（HONcode）。该倡议为信息提供者提出了指导方针，一方面旨在提高网络上可用数据的质量，另一方面有助于识别由专业人员维护且包含可靠数据的互联网站点。HONcode主要包括以下伦理方面：作者资质、临床文档的最后修改日期、数据保密性、源数据引用、资金来源及广告政策。本文介绍了HONcode及其自1996年推出以来的演变情况。
