ART: Hernandez-Borges, Can Examination of WWW Usage Statistics and Other Indirect Quality Indicators...

[Gretchen Whitney]

 Angel A. Hernandez-Borges, MD;  Pablo Macias-Cervi, MD; Maria
Asuncion Gaspar-Guardado, MD;  Maria Luisa Torres-çlvarez de Arcaya,
MD; Ana Ruiz-Rabaza, MD;  Alejandro Jimenez-Sosa, Ph.D.

Corresponding author:
Dr Hernandez-Borges
Valencia 21, 3¼. 38005 Santa Cruz de
Tenerife. Canary Islands, Spain.
E-mail: borges at redkbs.com
Telephone: 922-200972 FAX: 922-647112

Can Examination of WWW Usage Statistics and other Indirect Quality
 Indicators Help to Distinguish the Relative Quality of Medical websites?

Journal of Medical Internet Research 1999 1(1)

http://www.symposion.com/jmir/1999/1/e1/

"Background: The Internet offers a great amount of health related
websites, but concern has been raised about their reliability. Several
subjective evaluation criteria and websites rating systems have been
proposed as a help for the Internet users to distinguish among
web resources with different quality, but their efficacy has not been
proven.

Objective: To evaluate the agreement of a subset of Internet rating
systems editorial boards regarding their evaluations of a sample of
pediatric websites. To evaluate certain websites characteristics as
possible quality indicators for pediatric websites."





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