Objective. The aim of this study was to appraise the quality of information on BC available at websites run by organizations in Africa. Methods. Three searches were conducted using Google search engine to generate a list of websites. The identified websites were assessed using European Commission (EC) quality criteria for health-related websites, which comprises different assessment areas inclu...

OBJECTIVES To explore the extent to which doctor-rating websites are known and used among a sample of respondents from London. To understand the main predictors of what makes people willing to use doctor-rating websites. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING The Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England. PARTICIPANTS 200 individuals from the borough. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The...

BACKGROUND Asplenic patients in general have poor knowledge about their condition. Patients are increasingly turning to the Internet for their health care information, therefore this is a resource that many asplenic patients will use. The aim of our study was to determine the quality of information on the Internet for asplenic patients. METHODS We identified websites by entering "splenectomy ...

Web usability is important for users who depend on the websites they use, such as online distance education students. Accordingly, universities and educational websites need to determine the types of usability problems that occur on their websites. However, far too little attention has been paid to providing detailed information regarding the types of specific usability problems that occur on e...

Background. The available health information on websites should be reliable and accurate in order to make informed decisions by community. This study was done to assess the quality and readability of health information websites on World Wide Web in India. Methods. This cross-sectional study was carried out in June 2014. The key words "Health" and "Information" were used on search engines "Googl...

Through injecting dynamic script codes into compromised websites, attackers have widely launched search poisoning attacks to achieve their malicious goals, such as spreading spam or scams, distributing malware and launching drive-by download attacks. While most current related work focuses on measuring or detecting specific search poisoning attacks in the crawled dataset, it is also meaningful ...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of people visit online health communities to seek health information. In these communities, people share experiences and information with others, often complemented with links to different websites. Understanding how people share websites can help us understand patients' needs in online health communities and improve how peer patients share health information onl...

----------------------------------------************************---------------------------------Abstract: The increased trend to use websites for various purposes has also increase in different domains such as education, health, government and business. Organizations seeking to obtain benefits from their websites need to create and maintain websites that are successful in supporting the intera...

In this paper, we present an observational descriptive study of news websites, focusing on aspects related to interface design, accessibility and usability. Interface design was evaluated by measuring selected areas from web pages screenshots. As for the accessibility, automatic testing tools were used in the evaluation and analysis. Finally, a total of 145 user tests were conducted to evaluate...

Phishing attack is used to steal confidential information of user. Fraud websites appear similar to genuine websites with the logo and graphics of trusted website. Fraud Website Detection application aims to detect fraud websites using data mining techniques. This project provides intelligent solution to phishing attack. W3C standard defines characteristics which can be used to distinguish frau...