Table 3. Longitudinal comparison of DISCERN scores of Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia articles on malignant tumors of digestive system origin.

Websites, sections of DISCERN	2019, mean ± SE	2022, mean ± SE	P value
Baidu Encyclopedia
Section 1	15.24±0.62	15.87±0.67	0.001
Section 2	11.46±0.55	11.88±0.62	0.002
Section 3	1.68±0.10	1.75±0.10	0.06
Total score	28.38±1.11	29.5±1.26	<0.001
Wikipedia
Section 1	19.07±0.90	19.65±0.99	<0.0001
Section 2	12.93±1.06	13.45±1.13	0.004
Section 3	2.03±0.16	2.32±0.20	0.13
Total score	34.03±1.99	35.42±2.19	<0.0001

SE, standard error.