Reliability of health information on the Internet: An examination of experts' ratings

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-27

  Craigie, Mark ^a   Loader, Brian ^b   Burrows, Roger ^c   Muncer, Steven ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internet; Newsgroup; Quality control; Rating information; Reliability; Reproducibility of results; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037859594     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4.1.e2     Document Type: Article

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