Elisabeth Nogueira Martins
Evaluation of internet websites about retinopathy of prematurity patient education
University of California, Davis|Universidade Federal de São Paulo
success treatment patients retinopathy prematurity rop mainly associated timely diagnosis appropriate management information dissemination crucial outcome rop study aimed evaluate quality information rop available patients internetcross sectional study march 2004 rop information available internet evaluated using two search engines metacrawler msn four key terms retinopathy prematurity premature eye premature retina rop quality website evaluated using score system sites classified academic organisational commercial readability general quality website based ownership purpose authorship author qualification attribution interactivity currency quality content specific rop definition causes epidemiology risk factors diagnosis classification treatment prognosis analysedof 114 websites evaluated 40 included 10 sites 250 academic eight 200 organisational 22 550 commercial majority sites 625 rop information fair poora large amount information rop available internet however websites considered incomplete