Quality of Web-Based Information on Epidural Anesthesia

Abstract

posttests assessed HPV knowledge and intention to get vaccinated. Chief endpoints are difference between preand-postintervention proportion intending to get vaccinated and rate of making vaccine appointments on exiting intervention.RESULTS: Forty-nine (84%) attended their assigned intervention. Postintervention increase in intention to vaccinate was statistically significant in Group 3 (3-11; P5.033), in Group 2+3 (6-17; P5.022), and for the entire population (9-21; P5.028), but was not significant in Groups 1, 2, or 1+2 (Fig. 1). Rates of making a vaccine appointment immediately postintervention were: 9% (1/11) for Group 1, 40% (6/15) for Group 2, 17% (4/23) for Group 3, 26% (10/38) for Group 2+3, and 22% (11/49) for the total (Fig. 2). CONCLUSIONS:A 20-minute presentation by a gynecologic oncologist±interactive patient with cancer, increased college females' intent to vaccinate by 281% and yielded a 26% postintervention appointment rate. We will follow up with vaccination rates after 1 year.

Evaluating the Quality and Readability of Internet Information Sources regarding the Treatment of Swallowing Disorders

“…DISCERN, IQT, and QS demonstrated satisfactory inter-rater reliability, and the three instruments correlated positively with each other, which supports the convergent validity of these tools. DISCERN has also been used widely in various medical specialties, including urology, 23 psychiatry, 24 general surgery, 27,28 obstetrics, 29 and geriatrics. 30 The DISCERN tool does have some limitations.…”

Available web‐based dental implants information for patients. How good is it?

“…Discern and LIDA tools are the most frequently used tools for assessing quality and reliability of medical websites, particularly in the areas of anaesthesia (Jaffe et al. ), urology (Wong et al. ), and oncology (Wasserman et al.…”

“…This circumstance is frequently exploited by webs with marked commercial interests and unscrupulous sites (Pothier 2009) and usually produces misinformed patients. Discern and LIDA tools are the most frequently used tools for assessing quality and reliability of medical websites, particularly in the areas of anaesthesia (Jaffe et al 2014), urology (Wong et al 2013), and oncology (Wasserman et al 2014).…”

“…26, 2015, 1276-1280 doi: 10.1111/clr.12451 information seem to ease shared decision making based upon realistic expectations and a better doctor-patient communication (Eysenbach 2003). Moreover, the quality of the available medical information has proved to be highly variable, incomplete and generally poor (Wong et al 2013;Fahy et al 2014;Jaffe et al 2014;Wasserman et al 2014).…”

COVID-19 prevention and treatment information on the internet: a systematic analysis and quality assessment

“…These scores are also lower than those of other DISCERN studies, which have mean scores between 45.8 and 56.1, with SD between 8.76 and 13.6. [47][48][49] While the majority of DISCERN scores were low, websites scored similarly in the Reliability section. The mean scores for items 1, 2 and 3 were the highest of all indicators, averaging 4.37, 4.29 and 4.33, whereas the items in treatment section scored between 1 and 2, with a maximum mean score of 1.66 in Item 14.…”