Development and Content Validation of the Information Assessment Method for Patients and Consumers

Pierre Pluye   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Vera Granikov   ^{2 *} , MLIS ;   Gillian Bartlett   ¹ , PhD ;   Roland M. Grad   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   David L. Tang   ² , PhD ;   Janique Johnson-Lafleur   ² , MSc ;   Michael Shulha   ² , MLIS ;   Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvão   ³ , PhD ;   Ivan LM Ricarte   ⁴ , PhD ;   Randolph Stephenson   ⁵ , PhD ;   Linda Shohet   ⁶ , PhD ;   Jo-Anne Hutsul   ⁷ , BScPharm, PhD ;   Carol A. Repchinsky   ⁷ , BSc ;   Ellen Rosenberg   ¹ , BA, MD ;   Bernard Burnand   ⁸ , MD, MPH ;   France Légaré   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Lynn Dunikowski   ¹⁰ , MLS ;   Susan Murray   ¹¹ , MLS ;   Jill Boruff   ¹¹ , MLIS ;   Francesca Frati   ¹² , MLIS ;   Lorie Kloda   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Ann Macaulay   ¹ , MD ;   François Lagarde   ¹³ , MA ;   Geneviève Doray   ¹³

¹ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

² Information Technology Primary Care Research Group, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

³ Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

⁴ School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

⁵ Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, QC, Canada

⁶ The Centre for Literacy Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁷ Canadian Pharmacists Association, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁸ Institute of social and preventive medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

⁹ Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada

¹⁰ Library Services, College of Family Physicians of Canada, London, ON, Canada

¹¹ Life Sciences Library, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹² Health Sciences Library, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹³ Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation, Montreal, QC, Canada

*these authors contributed equally