Table 3.
Percentage of hospitals presenting the specified item: technical items
| Number and description of the item as it appears in the Codebook | Public hospitals type 1 (PubHs-1)# N = 198 |
Public hospitals type 2 (PubHs-2)# N = 221 |
Private hospitals (PrHs) N = 344 |
p* value |
p* value PubH-1 vs PrHs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of hospitals reporting the item | |||||
| 1. Site name appears on browser title bar | 94.4 | 67.0 | 94.2 | <0.001 | 0.91 |
| 2. Active part of the site appears on the browser title bar | 44.9 | 27.0 | 34.9 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
| 3. Name of the hospital at the head of the website | 97.5 | 53.8 | 96.8 | <0.001 | 0.65 |
| 4. Hospital logo at the head of the website | 91.4 | 3.6 | 90.7 | <0.001 | 0.78 |
| 5. Any animation or visual displays can be bypassed | 50.0 | 0 | 40.0 | 0.07 | 0.89 |
| 6. Access to the website in foreign languages | 14.7 | 2.3 | 11.3 | <0.001 | 0.26 |
| 7. Website map available | 47.5 | 7.2 | 17.4 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 8. Website searcher available | 61.6 | 4.5 | 27.9 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 9. Date of last website update | 20.2 | 6.3 | 9.6 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 10. Website has HON (Health On the Net) foundation code certification | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 11. Website has certification of accessibility to people with disabilities (at least W3C WAI-A logo) | 7.6 | 7.7 | 1.2 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 12. Website has certification of Cascading Style Sheets validation (W3C CSS logo) | 13.6 | 15.8 | 3.5 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 13. Website has certification of Markup Validation Service (W3C HTML logo) | 14.1 | 15.8 | 3.5 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 14. Website has certification of accessibility to people with disabilities provided by the Italian authority on informatics in the public administration |
0 | 0.9 | 0 | <0.001 | - |
| 15. Links with other useful websites provided (hospitals, scientific associations, institutions) | 68.2 | 12.2 | 38.4 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 16. General disclaimers provided | 15.7 | 7.7 | 9.3 | 0.02 | 0.03 |
| 17. Copyright notice | 36.9 | 28.5 | 37.2 | 0.08 | 0.93 |
| 18. Treatment of surfer personal data statement | 21.2 | 18.5 | 17.2 | 0.50 | 0.24 |
| 19. Website pages can be printed | 83.8 | 90.5 | 80.5 | 0.01 | 0.37 |
# PubHs-1: Public hospitals with their own website; PubHs-2: Public hospitals with a section on the website of their LHA
* Chi-square test or Fisher exact test, when appropriate