Evaluation of patient information Internet web sites about menopause and hormone replacement therapy

Evaluation of Internet websites about floaters and light flashes in patient education

“…Overall, the majority of floaters/light flashes information on the Internet was of poor or fair quality (69.4%). Similar results have been reported for websites addressing other diseases (2,7,(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) .…”

“…These are important principles to ensure quality and reliability of site content (15,17) . Technical scores revealed that disease prognosis was frequently not addressed in the studied sites (44.9%).…”

What Are Women Being Exposed to? A Review of the Quality, Content and Ownership of Websites on Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

“…When compared to other website reviews, the present findings echo varying-to-poor quality for other health (e.g. Croft & Peterson, 2002;Reed & Anderson, 2002) and mental health websites (e.g. Moore & Ayres, 2011).…”

“…currency of information, readability and download time 5 PMDD WEBSITE REVIEW (Eysenbach & Köhler, 2002;Croft & Peterson, 2002) as well as with the specific health content provided (e.g. incomplete information; Reed & Anderson, 2002). Whilst a number of specific studies have examined the content and quality of women's health information online, such as menopause, (Reed & Anderson, 2002;Pérez-López, 2004), postmenopausal osteoporosis, (Pérez-López & Pérez Roncero, 2006), cervical cancer treatments (Selman, Prakash, & Kahn, 2006), and postnatal mental health (Moore & Ayres, 2011), to the best of our knowledge there has not been a review of PMDD information websites.…”

Assessment of the quality and content of website health information about herbal remedies for menopausal symptoms

“…The aims of sites were often not immediately apparent, and the declaration of information sources and publication dates were also poor, giving users little opportunity to verify information provided, as reported about other health information online [24][25][26]. The website scores indicated room for improvement in both general quality and, in particular, information coverage.…”