Table 6.
Characteristics of articles (n = 36) retrieved between January 15, 2016 and February 5, 2016 using the following search terms on Google Scholar and PubMed: online, health information, evaluate, evaluation, tool, quality, validity, testing, validation, and assessment and meeting the following inclusion criteria: 1) the article is in the English language; 2) validation of an assessment tool related to quality of health information was the focus of the article
| Focus of article | Number of articles | Article title | Author(s) | Date of Publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observational or descriptive paper | 5 | Assessing, controlling, and assuring the quality of medical information on the internet: Caveant lector et viewor—let the reader and viewer beware | Silberg WM, Lundberg GD, and Musacchio RA | 1997 |
| The Health On the Net Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Websites | Boyer, C., M. Selby, J. R. Scherrer, and R. D. Appel | 1998 | ||
| Emerging Challenges in Using Health Information from the Internet | Theodosiou, Louise, and Jonathan Green | 2003 | ||
| Health information and the internet: The 5 Cs website evaluation tool | Roberts, Lorraine | 2010 | ||
| Quality of patient health information on the Internet: reviewing a complex and evolving landscape | Fahy, Eamonn, Rohan Hardikar, Adrian Fox, and Sean Mackay | 2014 | ||
| Evaluation of quality of information using tool(s) | 7 | Health information and interaction on the internet: a survey of female urinary incontinence | Sandvik, Hogne | 1999 |
| Evaluation of Websites that Provide Information on Alzheimer’s Disease | Bouchier, H., and P. A. Bath | 2003 | ||
| Accuracy of internet recommendations for prehospital care of venomous snake bites | Barker et al | 2010 | ||
| The quality of online antidepressant drug information: An evaluation of English and Finnish language Web sites | Prusti, Marjo, Susanna Lehtineva, Marika Pohjanoksa-Mäntylä, and J. Simon Bell | 2012 | ||
| Evaluation of dengue-related health information on the Internet | Rao et al | 2012 | ||
| A Methodology to Analyze the Quality of Health Information on the Internet The Example of Diabetic Neuropathy | Chumber, Sundeep, Jörg Huber, and Pietro Ghezzi | 2014 | ||
| Evaluation of Online Health Information on Clubfoot Using the DISCERN Tool | Kumar, Venkatesan S., Suresh Subramani, Senthil Veerapan, and Shah A. Khan | 2014 | ||
| Development of tool | 12 | DISCERN: an instrument for judging the quality of written consumer health information on treatment choices. | Charnock, D., S. Shepperd, G. Needham, and R. Gann | 1999 |
| Development of a self-assessment method for patients to evaluate health information on the Internet | Jones J. | 1999 | ||
| Development and Application of a Tool Designed to Evaluate Web Sites Providing Information on Alzheimer’s Disease | Bath, P. A., and H. Bouchier | 2003 | ||
| Development and validation of an international appraisal instrument for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines: the AGREE project | Cluzeau et al. | 2003 | ||
| Design and testing of a tool for evaluating the quality of diabetes consumer-information web sites. Journal of Medical Internet Research | Seidman, Joshua J, Donald Steinwachs, and Haya R Rubin | 2003 | ||
| The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews | Whiting, Penny, Anne WS Rutjes, Johannes B. Reitsma, Patrick MM Bossuyt, and Jos Kleijnen | 2003 | ||
| Ensuring Quality Information for Patients: Development and Preliminary Validation of a New Instrument to Improve the Quality of Written Health Care Information | Moult, Beki, Linda S Franck, and Helen Brady | 2004 | ||
| A model for online consumer health information quality | Stvilia, Besiki, Lorri Mon, and Yong Jeong Yi | 2009 | ||
| Health Literacy INDEX: Development, Reliability, and Validity of a New Tool for Evaluating the Health Literacy Demands of Health Information Materials | Kaphingst et al. | 2012 | ||
| Measuring the quality of Patients’ goals and action plans: development and validation of a novel tool | Teal, Cayla R., Paul Haidet, Ajay S. Balasubramanyam, Elisa Rodriguez, and Aanand D. Naik | 2012 | ||
| The Communication AssessmenT Checklist in Health (CATCH): a tool for assessing the quality of printed educational materials for clinicians. | Genova, Juliana, Isaac Nahon-Serfaty, Selma Chipenda Dansokho, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Jean-Sébastien Renaud, and Anik M. C. Giguère | 2014 | ||
| Development and Validation of the Guide for Effective Nutrition Interventions and Education (GENIE): A Tool for Assessing the Quality of Proposed Nutrition Education Programs | Hand, Rosa K., Jenica K. Abram, Katie Brown, Paula J. Ziegler, J. Scott Parrott, and Alison L. Steiber | 2015 | ||
| Evaluation of tool(s) | 9 | Published Criteria for Evaluating Health Related Web Sites: Review | Kim, Paul, Thomas R. Eng, Mary Jo Deering, and Andrew Maxfield | 1999 |
| Examination of instruments used to rate quality of health information on the internet: chronicle of a voyage with an unclear destination | Gagliardi, Anna, and Alejandro R. Jadad | 2002 | ||
| Evaluating the reliability and validity of three tools to assess the quality of health information on the Internet. | Ademiluyi, Gbogboade, Charlotte E Rees, and Charlotte E Sheard | 2003 | ||
| The Evaluation Criteria of Internet Health Information | Kang, Nam-Mi, Sukhwa Kim, Seungkuen Hong, Seewon Ryu, Hye-Jung Chang, and Jeongeun Kim | 2006 | ||
| Assessing the Quality of Websites Providing Information on Multiple Sclerosis: Evaluating Tools and Comparing Sites | Harland, Juliet, and Peter Bath | 2007 | ||
| What Do Evaluation Instruments Tell Us About the Quality of Complementary Medicine Information on the Internet? | Breckons, Matthew, Ray Jones, Jenny Morris, and Janet Richardson | 2008 | ||
| Tools Used to Evaluate Written Medicine and Health Information Document and User Perspectives | Luk, Alice, and Parisa Aslani | 2011 | ||
| Tools for Assessing the Quality and Accessibility of Online Health Information: Initial Testing among Breast Cancer Websites | Whitten, Pamela, Samantha Nazione, and Carolyn Lauckner | 2013 | ||
| Web-site evaluation tools: a case study in reproductive health information | Aslani, Azam, Omid Pournik, Ameen Abu-Hanna, and Saeid Eslami | 2014 | ||
| Systematic literature review of tools | 3 | Empirical Studies Assessing the Quality of Health Information for Consumers on the World Wide Web: A Systematic Review | Eysenbach et al. | 2002 |
| Online Health Information Tool Effectiveness for Older Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature | Bolle, Sifra, Julia C. M. van Weert, Joost G. Daams, Eugène F. Loos, Hanneke C. J. M. de Haes, and Ellen M. A. Smets. | 2015 | ||
| Quality of Health Information for Consumers on the Web: A Systematic Review of Indicators, Criteria, Tools, and Evaluation Results | Zhang, Yan, Yalin Sun, and Bo Xie | 2015 |