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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:841–845.

Table 2.

Presentation Style and Update frequency

Site Search Style Coloration and Graphics Interaction Result Display Last Update Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level*
CVS Type drug and supplement name No Bullet list with description and severity 9/4/01 N/A
Dr. Oz Alphabetic list of supplements No Bullet list of drugs classes, no severity Unknown 10.51
Medline Plus Alphabetic list of supplements No List of drug classes and CYP450 substrates categorized by severity 07/14/12 23.55
Drugs.com Type either drug or supplement, auto-suggest Both Detailed description, consumer or professional, severity presented in traffic sign icons 10/15/12 17.73
Vitamin Herb University Select supplement from dropdown list Both “Caution” followed by interactions list by drug class, no severity Unknown 17.46
Healthline.com Type with auto-suggest or select from list, drug and supplement Both Severity, meter, coloration for specific drug-CAM pair Unknown 14.12
Reference.medscape.com Type with auto-suggest Coloration Severity colorized, short description for specific drug-CAM pair Unknown 19.40
*

Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.