Research: Online Pediatric Health Information Is Not Reliable
Hamaker, Paul. "Research: Online Pediatric Health Information Is Not Reliable." Examiner, October 21, 2012.
From the article: "A first of its kind assessment of the reliability of internet web sites as sources of pediatric health information was presented at the
October 21, 2012, session of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference
and Exhibition in New Orleans. …“The content of each website was scored out of
a possible 100 points. Overall, academic websites had the highest content score
(mean: 60.8 ± 15.5), followed by physician (57±18), non profit (54.2±20.2) and
commercial (46.7±22.2). Among the disease/condition-specific information,
osteochondroma websites had the highest content scores (mean: 75.8 ± 11.8), and
those on leg length discrepancy had the lowest (39.5 ± 16.5).”
Part of the problem in accuracy and reliability was adjudged to be the fault
of the site creator. An unaddressed part of the equation was the pay for
placement schemes used by search engines to promote web sites that pay them to
rank that web site in the top ten." Read more
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