ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2002
How to find the good and avoid the bad or ugly: a short guide to tools for rating quality of health information on the internet.
Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed.
- Quality of drug information on the World Wide Web and strategies to improve pages with poor information quality. An intervention study on pages about sildenafil.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2004Trial
- Development of a Validated Lay Checklist (Info Without Side Effects) for Assessing Health Information on Websites: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Evaluating the effectiveness and limitations of online health information tools in assessing the quality of medication-related content.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Research Progress and Model Construction for Online Health Information Seeking Behavior.Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2021Review
- Readability and Quality of Online Information on Osteoarthritis: An Objective Analysis With Historic Comparison.Interactive journal of medical research · 2019Article
- Evaluation Breast Cancer Information on The Internet in Arabic.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2019Article
- A Tool That Assesses the Evidence, Transparency, and Usability of Online Health Information: Development and Reliability Assessment.JMIR aging · 2018Article
- How Do Infant Feeding Apps in China Measure Up? A Content Quality Assessment.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2017Article
- Readability of internet-sourced patient education material related to "labour analgesia".Medicine · 2017Article
- Quality and readability of online information resources on insomnia.Frontiers of medicine · 2017Article
- Health systems guidance appraisal--a critical interpretive synthesis.Implementation science : IS · 2016Review
- Comparing the quality of pro- and anti-vaccination online information: a content analysis of vaccination-related webpages.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Informed Choice for Participation in Down Syndrome Screening: Development and Content of a Web-Based Decision Aid.JMIR research protocols · 2015Article
- Medical information on the internet: a tool for measuring consumer perception of quality aspects.Interactive journal of medical research · 2015Article
- The impact of search engine selection and sorting criteria on vaccination beliefs and attitudes: two experiments manipulating Google output.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Article
- Sources of information and behavioral patterns in online health forums: observational study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Observational
- Development and validation of a tool to evaluate the quality of medical education websites in pathology.Journal of pathology informatics · 2013Article
- Searching the internet for health information about bipolar disorder: some cautionary issues.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2013Review
- Quality of online health information about oral contraceptives from Hebrew-language websites.Israel journal of health policy research · 2012Article
- Intelligent personal health record: experience and open issues.Journal of medical systems · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
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