The initial development of the WebMedQual scale: Domain assessment of the construct of quality of health web sites
International Journal of Medical InformaticsPublished 20 September 2005
Mélanie Provost, Dayin Koompalum, Diane Dong, Bradley C. Martin
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The "WebMedQual" represents a first step toward a comprehensive and standard quality assessment of health web sites and will allow relatively easy assessment of quality with possible numeric scoring.
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The "WebMedQual" represents a first step toward a comprehensive and standard quality assessment of health web sites. This scale will allow relatively easy assessment of quality with possible numeric scoring.
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