Evaluation of criteria for assessing health websites
Table 2: Density of website assessment criteria
Note: The percentages shown above are the number of criteria elements in all 22 criteria sets in the specified domain divided by the total number of criteria elements (i.e., 466), expressed as a percentage, that is, "criteria density." Our meta-criteria set lists 9 domains and 115 criteria elements.
Code
Meta-Criteria Domain
Number
Percent
1.0
Content relevance
56
12.0%
2.0
Content accessibility
90
19.3%
3.0
Content selection
34
7.3%
4.0
Content validity
128
27.5%
5.0
Content interchange
10
2.2%
6.0
Site transparency/credibility
78
16.7%
7.0
Links
35
7.5%
8.0
Quality assurance
9
1.9%
9.0
Safeguards
26
5.6%
Total
466
100.0%
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