Commonly cited website quality criteria are not effective at identifying inaccurate online information about breast cancer

Reliability, Readability and Quality of Online Information about Femoracetabular Impingement

Background: The Internet has become the most widely-used source for patients seeking information more about their health and many sites geared towards this audience have gained widespread use in recent years. Additionally, many healthcare institutions publish their own patient-education web sites with information regarding common conditions. Little is known about how these resources impact pati...

Website Quality Assessment Criteria

The article presents a hierarchical framework, which supports website quality assessment. The framework is composed of a hierarchical structure of criteria and subcriteria and makes use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to enhance criterion and subcriterion weight value assessment. To validate the framework we conducted an experiment, which involved the assessment of the websites of the three c...

Online patient information about breast cancer - a discourse analysis

Adequate information is crucial for patient participation in health trajectories. The objective of this study is to analyse how online health information about cancer is organised and presented. Updated information about breast cancer in Norway is available through different Web portals, provided by different intermediaries. The Norwegian Directorate of Health offers information on helsenorge.n...

Who Are We Talking About? Identifying Scientific Populations Online

In this paper, we begin to address the question of which scientists are online. Prior studies have shown that Web users are only a segmented reflection of the actual offline population, and thus when studying online behaviors we need to be explicit about the representativeness of the sample under study to accurately relate trends to populations. When studying social phenomena on the Web, the id...

Are higher quality papers cited more often?