Table 6.

Average time per researcher spent extracting data from each website

Website	Minutes (SD)
Map of Medicine	35 (0)
BTA	50 (17)
GP notebook	40 (5)
eMedicine	55 (5)
CKS	50 (5)
Mentor-online	35 (9)
GP online	50 (10)
Action on Hearing Loss	35 (9)
Patient.co.uk	45 (5)
NHS Choice	35 (0)

Section1, Section 2 and Overall score for each website are presented as mean of all questions (8 questions in Section 1, 7 questions in Section 2, 15 questions overall). Values are averages corrected to one decimal place. Websites are listed in rank order of overall score. Scores can range 0 to 5 where a score less than 5 suggests some ‘potentially important but not serious shortcomings’ and a score of less than 3 suggests some ‘potentially serious shortcomings’ in the information. BTA = British Tinnitus Association, CKS = Clinical Knowledge Summaries.