Table 2.
Compliance of CAM Web sites with technical quality criteria. Criteria are also grouped into 5 categories (in bold). Values are counts (percentages)
| Quality criteria | Number of Web sites (%) |
| Authority | |
| Disclosure of authorship | 41 (27) |
| Author's credentials disclosed | 17 (11) |
| Credentials of physicians disclosed | 2 (1) |
| Author's affiliation disclosed | 17 (11) |
| Transparency and Honesty | |
| Sources clear | 100 (67) |
| General disclosures | 147 (98) |
| References provided | 54 (36) |
| Disclosure of ownership | 144 (96) |
| Currency/ Updating of information | |
| Date of creation disclosed | 31 (21) |
| Date of last update disclosed | 21 (14) |
| Date of creation or update disclosed | 49 (33) |
| Editorial Policy | |
| Editorial review process | 9 (6) |
| Others | |
| Internal search engine present | 78 (52) |
| Feedback mechanism | 132 (88) |
| Copyright notice | 105 (70) |