Knowing What’s Best: Discover How the Portal Does Your HomeworkMaureen DobbinsProfessor and Scientific Director, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, McMaster University

Public Webinar SeriesOctober 21, 2014 3:00-4:00pm EDT

What is a Portal?

Who is the Portal for? Why?

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Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative

McMaster Optimal Aging Portal

Optimal Aging Knowledge Translation

Enterprise

Labarge Optimal Aging Opportunities Fund

Stakeholder and Media Engagement

Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative

McMaster Optimal Aging Portal

Best Evidence/Evidence Summaries

Web Resource Ratings

Blog PostsSearch & Browse

Email Alerts

Components

Contributors - Researchers

Brian HaynesParminder RainaMaureen DobbinsJohn LavisAnthony Levinson

Key ContentWeb Resource Ratings, Blog Posts and Email Alerts

Web Resource Ratings

What are they?Evaluations of health resources on the internet

Why are they useful?Help you know which web-based resources are good

Assessing Quality of ContentWeb Resource Rater

Web Resource Rater: Overview

Quality-rated, consumer-friendly health information relevant to older adults and their caregivers

Three stages of Web Resource Rating:

1. Assessing inclusion of websites

2. Assessing inclusion of web resources

from included websites

3. Assessing quality of included web

resources

Web Resource Rater: Inclusion Criteria

Websites must be:

A. Not directly funded

by a company trying

to sell you a product

or service

B. Relevant to optimal

aging 

C. Free access

Web resources

must be:

A. Not directly funded

by a company trying

to sell you a product

or service

B. Relevant to optimal

aging

C. Less than 5 years of

age

Web Resource Rater: Quality Criteria

Included web resources are rated for quality by two independent raters assessing: A. Use of scientific researchB. Whether it is clear who developed the

resource and howC. Ease of use

A ‘five-star’ overall rating is generated, weighted to favour web resources that use research evidence

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Web Resource Rater: Indexing

Type of productCategories

Health conditionsHealthcare deliveryHealthy aging practice

KeywordsActionable Message

Web Resource Rater: User Experience

Browse menu indexing

Keywords extracted from the web resource

Actionable message

Star rating (/5)

Browse topics

What is the browse function?Look for Evidence Summaries, Web Resource Ratings and Blog Posts by topic

Why is it useful?We’ve categorized the content for youExplore an area of interest

Resource

Search

What is the search function?Enter search terms and search across citizen contentAlso see results for professionals

Why is it useful?Find more specific contentView relevant results for citizen information types and professionals

Vitamins

Blog Posts

What are they?Commentaries on what the research means

Why are they useful?Translated from our jargonPresented in article format

Blog Post Development

Based on good quality evidenceWritten by professional writingEdited by an expertIndexed with other material on siteposted

Email alerts

What are they?Lists of new content recently added to PortalWeekly or monthly email you opt in for

Why are they useful?Click on hyperlink in email to view content of interestKeeps you up to date with new research

Registration & Help

Register

Why register?Access all contentSearch all contentRole-based featuresEmail alerts

How to register?Green REGISTER button

Help

What is the help content?Information and explanations about Portal features by topic

Where can I find it?

Acknowledgements

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Contact Information

Dr. Maureen Dobbins

dobbinsm@mcmaster.ca905-525-9140 ext. 20455

www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org