Open AccessQuality and readability of the dental information obtained by patients on Internet: criteria for selecting medical consultation websites
Author(s) -
Sara Allegue-Magaz,
Miguel Peñarrocha Diago,
Cintia Chamorro-Petronacci,
Alejandro I. Lorenzo-Pouso,
Andrés Blanco Carrión,
Abel Garcı́a Garcı́a,
Mario PérezSayáns
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medicina oral, patología oral y cirugía bucal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1698-6946
pISSN - 1698-4447
DOI - 10.4317/medoral.23521
Subject(s) - readability , quality (philosophy) , medicine , the internet , population , quality score , scale (ratio) , apicoectomy , medical information , web page , medical education , world wide web , family medicine , computer science , dentistry , business , environmental health , marketing , metric (unit) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , programming language
The main objective of this study is to examine the quality of the information available for patients online with regards to the apicoectomy surgical procedure, both on general and critically selected websites. The hypothesis is that general websites has less quality than other that have been pre-selected.