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. 2011 Jul 31;1(1):e000152. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000152

Table 1.

25 Selected sites and their overall scores

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Ontario Fibromyalgia Association54; http://www.hwcn.org/∼aq226/ (no longer active) Not specified/Canada 23 40 11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.