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The Quality of Romanian Breast Cancer Websites: a Five-Year Longitudinal Assessment
- Source :
- Journal of Cancer Education. 33:703-707
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- The Internet has become an important source of overall health information and seems to be the second common source of information used by patients in the process of decision-making before breast surgery. The goal of this study was to monitor Romanian breast cancer websites and their quality over a period of 5 years. We evaluated a sample of 20 websites selected from Google’s first search results pages using specific rating scores for e-health quality, completeness, accuracy, and potential risk, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. Only 15 (75%) of the websites in the 2011 sample were accessible in 2016 and only two (10%) retained real-life visibility (Google PageRank
- Subjects :
- Quality Control
medicine.medical_specialty
020205 medical informatics
Breast surgery
medicine.medical_treatment
Decision Making
Pharmacology toxicology
Breast Neoplasms
Health literacy
02 engineering and technology
computer.software_genre
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Breast cancer
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
030212 general & internal medicine
Internet
Consumer Health Information
Multimedia
Romania
business.industry
Potential risk
Romanian
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease
language.human_language
Data Accuracy
Oncology
Family medicine
language
Female
The Internet
Health information
business
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15430154 and 08858195
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cancer Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....91d608465661baa64a029748d745e986