Table 2.
Characteristics of Heart Failure Websites
| Websites | Type | DISCERN Quality Rating |
PEMAT Score | Mean Reading Level |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U% | A% | ||||
| ★mayoclinic.org | H | 56 | 58.3 | 60 | 11.5 |
| ★emedicine.medscape.com | O | 53 | 28.6 | 0 | 18.5 |
| ★heartfailure.org | O | 60 | 62.5 | 66.7 | 11.2 |
| ★nhlbi.nih.gov | G | 49 | 75 | 100 | 9.2 |
| ★familydoctor.org | O | 46 | 61.5 | 60 | 9.4 |
| ★en.wikipedia.org | O | 52 | 30.8 | 0 | 18 |
| ★nytimes.com | O | 56 | 38.5 | 40 | 9.7 |
| ★nlm.nih.gov | G | 56 | 80 | 40 | 10.1 |
| ★ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | G | 49 | 61.5 | 40 | 9.1 |
| ★medicinenet.com | O | 47 | 76.9 | 40 | 9.6 |
| cdc.gov | G | 43 | 62.5 | 0 | 11.4 |
| healthline.com | O | 43 | 69.2 | 40 | 12.4 |
| nhs.uk | G | 59 | 50 | 40 | 11.9 |
| wexnermedical.osu.edu | H | 35 | 61.5 | 60 | 17.2 |
| en.academic.ru | O | 60 | 23.1 | 20 | 16.8 |
| patient.co.uk | O | 53 | 68.8 | 60 | 10.1 |
| medicalnewstoday.com | O | 48 | 53.8 | 40 | 12 |
| emedicinehealth.com | O | 49 | 53.8 | 20 | 13.8 |
| uptodate.com | O | 57 | 53.8 | 60 | 10.6 |
| my.clevelandclinic.org | H | 55 | 85.7 | 66.7 | 10.8 |
| urmc.rochester.edu | H | 39 | 61.5 | 0 | 10.6 |
| heart.org | O | 58 | 81.3 | 100 | 10.4 |
| hopkinsmedicine.org | H | 50 | 58.3 | 33.3 | 13.1 |
| drweil.com | O | 29 | 53.8 | 40 | 14.2 |
| merckmanuals.com | O | 42 | 38.5 | 0 | 17.3 |
| rightdiagnosis.com | O | 37 | 46.2 | 0 | 13.9 |
| umm.edu | H | 44 | 33.3 | 0 | 14.2 |
| medtronic.com | O | 37 | 50 | 40 | 13.3 |
| ghc.org | H | 37 | 84.6 | 40 | 9 |
| healthcommunities.com | O | 55 | 46.2 | 40 | 14.1 |
| ucsfhealth.org | H | 40 | 41.7 | 20 | 11.7 |
| uchospitals.edu | H | 47 | 46.2 | 0 | 15.8 |
| cedars-sinai.edu | H | 36 | 69.2 | 0 | 12.6 |
| emoryhealthcare.org | H | 47 | 41.7 | 83.3 | 12.9 |
| uchealth.staywellsolutionsonline.com | H | 47 | 75 | 0 | 11.6 |
| pdrhealth.com | O | 34 | 31.3 | 60 | 11.3 |
| ⇩texasheart.org | H | 47 | 57.1 | 33.3 | 9.8 |
| ⇩healthtalk.org | O | 57 | 75 | 0 | 11.9 |
| ⇩health.sjm.com | O | 48 | 62.5 | 40 | 11.2 |
| ⇩nihseniorhealth | G | 48 | 87.5 | 66.7 | 9.7 |
| ⇩mclaren.org | H | 27 | 41.7 | 0 | 15.6 |
| ⇩utswmedicine.com | H | 33 | 58.3 | 20 | 14 |
| ⇩barnesjewish.org | H | 41 | 45.5 | 0 | 17.9 |
| ⇩bettermedicine.com | O | 37 | 53.8 | 60 | 11.8 |
| ⇩winthrop.org | H | 30 | 40 | 0 | 13.4 |
| ⇩stlukeshouston.com | H | 41 | 53.8 | 60 | 16.1 |
Note.
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Top 10 website (per search traffic),
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Bottom 10 website, G – Government, H – Hospital, O – Other, U – Understandability, A – Actionability, ARI – Automated Reading Index, CLI – Coleman-Liau Index, FK – Flesch Kincaid Grade Level, FRE – Flesch Reading Ease, GF – Gunning-Fog Index