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Maifredi et al. [57]
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Italy
|
Italian hospitals
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763
|
2009
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High percentage of hospitals do not provide an official website. Very few websites provide information to increase credibility of hospital and user confidence in institution.
|
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Liu et al. [58]
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China
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Public hospitals
|
23
|
2009
|
Most websites show good performance in content, a normal performance in function and design, but bad performance in website management & usage.
|
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Selig et al. [59]
|
Germany
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Burn centers
|
44
|
2010
|
Websites offer a good overview about institution’s online services via numerous multimedia-based elements. However, the quality of specific information for burn patients is relatively poor.
|
|
Orlowski et al. [60]
|
USA
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Heart failure websites
|
5
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2011
|
Websites written at high readability levels (8-9th grade), but easily navigated.
|
|
Weber et al. [21]
|
GCC
|
General health websites
|
925
|
2012
|
Evaluating HON standards, approximately less than 10% of websites post privacy policy or authorship of information. Over 50% of websites provide a date for information. Only 1.7% report advertising policy and 23.5% disclose sponsorships.
|
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Huerta et al. [32]
|
USA
|
Hospital websites
|
2407
|
2013
|
Management of hospitals’ online presence is not adequate.
|
|
Huerta et al. [18]
|
USA
|
Children hospital websites
|
153
|
2014
|
Wide range of websites’ score with no perfect website suggesting room for meaningful improvements.
|
|
Raj et al. [61]
|
India
|
General health websites
|
32
|
2014
|
Most websites have average quality, especially in usability. Many websites written at high readability levels.
|
|
Salarvand et al. [33]
|
Iran
|
Public hospitals
|
59
|
2016
|
Overall, low level quality of the websites evaluated.
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