Media Doctor in Japan: to improve the public literacy about health care reporting by analyzing health care journalism.

研究的目的是通过帮助公民批判性地分析和讨论医疗保健问题，并通过促进由准确，平衡的信息加强共同决策的原则，改善有关医疗保健的公共对话。我们试图评估可能影响消费者的新治疗，测试，药物和设备的主题，并提供他们可以用来做出适当决定的标准。我们使用标准化的评级系统审查了故事的质量。由研究人员、医疗保健专业人员和记者对每个故事进行审查，对评价者和标准之间的一致性进行有效性验证，并创建标准和评价工具。评价者在“干预危害信息”、“标题的适当性”方面的一致率较高。需要澄清条款的选择和审查程序的进一步确认。

The purpose of the research is to improve the public dialogue about health care by helping citizens critically analyze and discuss about health care issues and by promoting the principles of shared decision-making reinforced by accurate, balanced information. We tried to evaluate topics on new treatment, test, drug and devices that may influence consumers and provides criteria that they can use to make their decisions appropriately. We reviewed the quality of the stories using a standardized rating system. Stories were reviewed by researchers, healthcare professionals and journalists to evaluate each story.Validity verification of the consistency between evaluators and criteria was performed, and the standard and the evaluation tool were created. The rate of concordance was high between reviewers in "information about harms of intervention", "appropriateness of a headline". Selection of articles and further validation of the review process needed to be clarified.