Evaluation of criteria for assessing health websites
Table 3: Top-10 specific health website assessment criteria

Code Criteria Description Number Percent
6.1 Does the site say who owns or pays for or created it? 17 77%
3.2 Conflict of interest, bias, disclosure of sponsorship, funding sources 14 64%
2.2 Navigability, logical organization 13 59%
6.6.3 Does the site indicate when it was last updated? 13 59%
1.1 Purpose/Mission/Scope: Does site state its purpose? 12 55%
1.2 Audience: Does the site state its intended audience? 12 55%
4.2.2 Author's credentials 12 55%
4.4 For reports of facts does site give source of specific information? 12 55%
3.1 Editorial policy, site evaluation process, peer review process 10 46%
7.1 Does the site link to other sites as sources of health information? 10 46%
9.3 Disclaimers, privacy policy, sponsorship, advertising policy 10 46%
Total number of criteria sets = 22

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