Systematic Review of the Quality of Patient Information on the Internet Regarding Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatments

Assessment of the Quality of Patient-Orientated Internet Information on Surgery for Diverticular Disease

“…6 The DISCERN instrument has been extensively validated and widely used to assess patient information content; it was initially intended for publications in print, but it is now increasingly used for online resources. 7,9,10 An alternative instrument to DISCERN is EQIP, 11 but because EQIP was developed more recently, it is not as widely used as DISCERN. Although the DISCERN criteria assess the content of the Web sites, it does not give an indication of how user friendly a particular Web site is.…”

The Quality of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Information Resources for Patients on the Internet in Korea (Preprint)

“…In addition to our study, several studies of internet health information assessments for other diseases demonstrated marked variation in quality and poor quality information in need of many improvements, although these studies used different evaluation tools [20,[29][30][31]. Therefore, there is great concern regarding the quality of internet health information [17,32].…”

“…The QEI and GQS were developed by referring to a study that conducted a quality review of internet information for other diseases [19,20]. Website information quality was evaluated independently by two reviewers (I.T.…”

“…Thus, websites that would meet our enrollment criteria may vary depending on the time and language of the search. In other studies, however, quality was assessed by searching for specific periods and words [20,31,35,36].…”

Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care

“…There have been some suggestions that the quality of information has been improving as a consequence of the increasing use of peer-reviewing of information on evermore interactive websites (Deshpande and Jadad, 2009); however it is still best characterised as variable (Langille et al, 2010;Honekamp and Ostermann, 2011;Lawrentschuck et al, 2012). In one study concerned with the quality of information pertaining to Inflammatory Bowel Disease on the Internet, researchers identified only 14 per cent of websites offering high-quality information (Bernard et al, 2007).…”