Table 1.
Website; URL | Developer/origin | DISCERN Totalscore - 75 | Quality checklist, % yes | Readability (grade level) |
Fibromyalgia Treatment Center36; http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/ | Fibromyalgia Treatment Center, Inc/USA | 22 | 80 | 7 |
Fibromyalgia Network37; http://www.fmnetnews.com/ | Not specified/USA | 38 | 60 | 8 |
Medline Plus38; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus | National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health/USA | 40 | 80 | 8 |
Women's Health Matters39; http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca | Women's College Hospital and the Women's College Research Institute/Canada | 46 | 80 | 8 |
Body and Health40; http://bodyandhealth.canada.com | MediResource/Canada | 27 | 30 | 9 |
The Environmental Illness Resource41; http://www.ei-resource.org/ | Matthew Hogg/UK | 32 | 70 | 9 |
Fibromyalgia Support42; http://www.fibromyalgia-support.org | Global Healing Center/USA | 28 | 90 | 9 |
FM-CFS Canada43; http://fm-cfs.ca/fm.html | FM-CFS Canada/Canada | 55 | 80 | 9 |
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; http://en.wikipedia.org44 | Wikimedia Foundation, Inc/USA | 40 | 80 | 10 |
Canadian Women's Health Network45; http://www.cwhn.ca | The Canadian Women's Health Network and the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health/Canada | 34 | 60 | 10 |
MedicineNet.com46; http://www.medicinenet.com | MedicineNet, Inc/USA | 45 | 80 | 10 |
Fibromyalgia Symptoms47; http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/http://www.fibromyalgiasymptoms.org/ | Not specified | 46 | 40 | 10 |
About.com48; http://chronicfatigue.about.com | The New York Times Company/USA | 46 | 90 | 10 |
Women and Fibromyalgia49; http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/ | Book written by Barbara Keddy/Canada | 23 | 60 | 10 |
National Fibromyalgia Partnership50; http://www.fmpartnership.org/ | The National Fibromyalgia Partnership, Inc/not specified | 50 | 60 | 10 |
Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue51; http://www.chronicfatigue.org/ | Clymer Healing Center/USA | 21 | 50 | 10 |
Autoimmunity Research Foundation52; http://autoimmunityresearch.org/ | Autoimmunity Research Foundation/USA | 24 | 70 | 11 |
Fibromyalgia Information53; http://fibromyalgia.ncf.ca/ | Woman to Woman Computing/Canada | 52 | 90 | 11 |
Ontario Fibromyalgia Association54; http://www.hwcn.org/∼aq226/ (no longer active) | Not specified/Canada | 23 | 40 | 11 |
NIAMS55; http://www.niams.nih.gov | National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases/USA | 49 | 100 | 11 |
Fibromyalgia Information Foundation56; http://www.myalgia.com/ | Oregon Health & Science University/USA | 51 | 90 | 11 |
Fibrohugs57; http://fibrohugs.com/ | Ken Euteneier/not specified | 16 | 40 | 12 |
Mayo Clinic58; http://mayoclinic.com/ | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research/USA | 45 | 90 | 13 |
BC Fibromyalgia Society59; http://www.mefm.bc.ca | MEFM Societies of BC/Canada | 28 | 70 | 13 |
Neurology Channel60; http://www.neurologychannel.com | Healthcommunities.com, Inc/USA | 41 | 80 | 15 |
The list is based on lowest to highest readability scores.