Usability of quality measures for online health information: Can commonly used technical quality criteria be reliably assessed?

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 74, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 675-683

  Bernstam, Elmer V ^a   Sagaram, Smitha ^a   Walji, Muhammad ^a   Johnson, Craig W ^a   Meric Bernstam, Funda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical informatics; MeSH: Internet; Patient education

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; WEBSITES;

COHEN'S KAPPA METHOD; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; PREVELANCE- AND BIAS-ADJUSTED KAPPA (PABAK); QUALITY CRITERIA;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONSUMER; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 22544446452     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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