caa a22 4500 606187162 CHVBK 20210128100839.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00405-014-3349-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00405-014-3349-z Quality of information available via the internet for patients with head and neck cancer: are we improving? [Elektronische Daten] [James Best, Jameel Muzaffar, Alistair Mitchell-Innes] This study aimed to evaluate the type, content, accessibility and quality of information available via the internet for patients with head and neck cancer. The Google search engine was used to generate lists of the first 100 websites for general head and neck cancer and the first ten for head and neck cancers by anatomical location (160 total). Websites were evaluated with the validated DISCERN and LIDA instruments, the SMOG (Simple measure of gobbledygook) readability score and against the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) criteria. 40 of the 160 websites ranked by Google were suitable for analysis. Seven websites (17.5%) partially or fully achieved all four JAMA benchmarks and only one (2.5%) site achieved none. 28 (70%) included reference to quality of life factors. Correlations were identified between Google site rank and all four of our appraisal tools; LIDA (−0.966, p=0.006), JAMA (−5.93, p=0.028), DISCERN (−0.568, p=0.037) and SMOG (4.678, p=0.04). Google site rank and both government run sites (−35.38, p=0.034) and sites run by universities or hospitals (−27.32, p=0.016) also showed an association. Comparing our observations with those of Riordain in 2008, there has been little improvement in the quality of head and neck cancer information available online over this time. Given the variability in quality of information online, patients would benefit from being directed to reliable websites by clinicians Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Head and neck cancer nationallicence Quality of information nationallicence Internet nationallicence Patient information nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence Best James Department of Clinical Oncology, Yorkshire Training Rotation, Kingston upon Hull, UK aut Muzaffar Jameel Department of Otolaryngology, West Midlands Training Rotation, Birmingham, UK aut Mitchell-Innes Alistair Department of Otolaryngology, West Midlands Training Rotation, Birmingham, UK aut European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Springer Berlin Heidelberg 272/11(2015-11-01), 3499-3505 0937-4477 272:11<3499 2015 272 405 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-014-3349-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-014-3349-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Best James Department of Clinical Oncology, Yorkshire Training Rotation, Kingston upon Hull, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Muzaffar Jameel Department of Otolaryngology, West Midlands Training Rotation, Birmingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mitchell-Innes Alistair Department of Otolaryngology, West Midlands Training Rotation, Birmingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Springer Berlin Heidelberg 272/11(2015-11-01), 3499-3505 0937-4477 272:11<3499 2015 272 405