Quality of vascular surgery Web sites on the Internet

摘要: Introduction This study evaluated the readability, accessibility, usability, and reliability of vascular surgery information on Internet in English language. Methods The Google, Yahoo, MSN/Bing search engines were searched for "carotid endarterectomy," "EVAR or endovascular aneurysm repair," "varicose veins varicose surgery." first 50 Web sites from each engine topic analyzed. Flesch Reading Ease Score Gunning Fog Index calculated to assess readability. LIDA tool (Minervation Ltd, Oxford, UK) was used reliability. Results difficult read comprehend. mean scores 53.53 carotid endarterectomy, 50.53 repair, 58.59 veins. 12.3 12.12 10.69 values accessibility good, but results usability poor. Conclusions surgical conditions procedures is poorly written unreliable. We suggest that health professionals should recommend are easy contain high-quality information. Medical must be readable, accessible, usable, reliable.