Evaluating the Accuracy, Quality, and Readability of Online Breast Cancer Information by Elsie A. Valencia, BS, Chandler S. Cortina, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS, Adrienne N. Cobb, MD, MS, Lubna N. Chaudhary, MD, MS, Tracy Kelly, MD, Amanda L. Kong, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS

“…Mean readability was compared with the American Medical Association and National Institutes of Health 6th grade recommendation. …”
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How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth by Rosemary V. Barnett

“… Recently the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new anti-bullying policy that concluded that bullying is not just another childhood behavior that will eventually be outgrown, but rather a public health problem that can have long-term effects for both the bully and the victim. …”
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How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth by Rosemary V. Barnett

“… Recently the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new anti-bullying policy that concluded that bullying is not just another childhood behavior that will eventually be outgrown, but rather a public health problem that can have long-term effects for both the bully and the victim. …”
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Gastroenterology, notes on its beginnings in the Central Region of Cuba by Ignacio Morales Martínez, Nancy Andreu Gómez

“…The creation, in 1932, of the Gastroenterology and Proctology section of the American Medical Association laid the foundations in this direction. …”
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YouTube as an information source in deep margin elevation: Reliability, accuracy and quality analysis. by Zeyneb Merve Ozdemir, Sevim Atılan Yavuz, Derya Gursel Surmelioglu

“…The evaluation of the videos was carried out based on the Global Quality Scale (GQS), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark, and the modified-DISCERN questionnaire (m-DISCERN). …”
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How Qualified is Online Information Regarding Space Maintainers? A Content-quality and Readability Analysis by Semih Ercan Akgün

“…The websites were evaluated using the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Quality Criteria for Consumer Health Information (DISCERN), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), and Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES) instruments.Results: Among the 90 websites included in the study, Professional Health Organization (PHO) websites had significantly higher DISCERN scores in all sections and total (p<0.05) compared to other websites. …”
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Evaluating the readability, quality, and reliability of online information on sjogren's syndrome by Erkan Ozduran, Volkan Hanci

“…The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) score was used to assess the websites' reliability, the DISCERN score, the Health on the Net Foundation code of conduct (HONcode) was used to assess quality, and Alexa was used to analyze their popularity. …”
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Health information analysis of cryptorchidism-related short videos: Analyzing quality and reliability by Yuqiang Sun, Xingjian Liu, Xintao Zhang, Qiongqian Xu, Aiwu Li

“…Using the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) criteria, Global Quality Score (GQS), and modified DISCERN score, we evaluated the videos based on six factors: definition, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, and outcome. …”
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Artificial intelligence in dentistry: Assessing the informational quality of YouTube videos. by Sachin Naik, Abdulaziz Abdullah Al-Kheraif, Sajith Vellappally

“…The quality of the videos was evaluated using the modified Global Quality Score (mGQS) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) score.<h4>Results</h4>The analysis of 91 YouTube™ videos on AI in dentistry revealed insights into video characteristics, content, and quality. …”
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Celiac Disease in Children and YouTube: Do the Videos Contain Accurate Information? by Abdulkerim Elmas, Mustafa Akcam

“…Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Global Quality Scale (GQS), and modified DISCERN (ModDISCERN) scoring were performed for quality and reliability of the videos. …”
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The Readability of Patient Education Materials Pertaining to Gastrointestinal Procedures by Mohammad S. Nawaz, Laura E. McDermott, Savanna Thor

“…Due to the ubiquity and ease of access of Internet, patients are able to access online health information more easily than ever. The American Medical Association recommends that patient education materials be targeted at or below the 6th grade level in order to accommodate a wider audience. …”
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O Instagram sob o viés da desinformação: as hashtags e o compartilhamento de informações na área de Nutrição by Thaís Guimarães, Rosa Inês Cordeiro

“…Com base no conjunto de princípios e diretrizes desenvolvidos pelo Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Onthe Net Foundation–HONcode –e por Charnock e Shepperd –DISCERN,para ajudar a garantir a qualidade e a credibilidade das informações em saúde e medicina na internet,desenvolveramcritérios que integram um instrumento que foi aplicado no exame da amostra, a fim de analisar e identificar informações confiáveis ou não nas publicações da área de Nutrição no Instagram por meio da representatividade das hashtags, uma vezque incidem naqualidade darecuperação. …”
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A qualitative analysis of Arabic language websites about extraction of third molars by Muath Saad Alassaf, Mohannad Mohammed Abu Aof, Osama Ayidh Alharbi, Abdulrahman Turkustani, Moataz Ibrahim Karbouji, Nebras Althagafi, Ahmed Mohammed Almghamsi, Ghayda Yousof Zolaly, Shadia Elsayed

“…The quality of the websites was evaluated using the DISCERN tool and the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) guidelines for online content analysis. …”
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Quality of information in gestational diabetes mellitus videos on TikTok: Cross-sectional study. by Genyan Jiang, Lei Chen, Lan Geng, Yuhan Zhang, Zhiqi Chen, Yaqi Zhu, Shuangshuang Ma, Mei Zhao

“…The quality of the videos was assessed using three standardized evaluation tools: DISCERN, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmarks, and the Global Quality Scale (GQS). …”
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Evaluation of the quality, reliability, readability of websites on temporomandibular joint pain by Selcen Eser Mısır, Perihan Dalgalı Evli, Kübra Gülnur Topsakal, Merve Aksoy

“…Four different evaluation tools the DISCERN instrument, The Ensuring Quality Information for Patients (EQIP), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark, Readability Index were used to evaluate 37 sites that met the inclusion criteria. …”
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The trend of suicide and self-harm in the Chinese population from 2018 to 2022 based on ambulance medical emergency cases: a retrospective study by Ruizhe Yang, Jinsu Zhou, Francis Manyori Bigambo, Wu Yan, Xu Wang, Haibo Yang

“…Descriptive statistics and content analysis were conducted to identify characteristics and themes related to these events, with age groups defined according to American Medical Association standards.ResultsThe study highlights drug poisoning as the leading method, accounting for 63.56% of the 4,103 suicide events. …”
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Readability and understandability of clinical research patient information leaflets and consent forms in Ireland and the UK: a retrospective quantitative analysis by Peter Doran, Eilish McAuliffe, Lydia O'Sullivan, Prasanth Sukumar, Rachel Crowley

“…None of the PILs/ICFs had the mean reading age of &lt;12 years recommended by the American Medical Association. 7.1% of PILs/ICFs were evaluated as ‘Plain English’, 40.3%: ‘Fairly Difficult’, 51.3%: ‘Difficult’ and 1.3%: ‘Very Difficult’. …”
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COVID-19 prevention and treatment information on the internet: a systematic analysis and quality assessment by Daniel Richardson, Ka Siu Fan, Shahi Abdul Ghani, Nikolaos Machairas, Lorenzo Lenti, Ka Hay Fan, Aneya Scott, Dimitri Aristotle Raptis

“…Objective To evaluate the quality of information regarding the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 available to the general public from all countries.Design Systematic analysis using the ‘Ensuring Quality Information for Patients’ (EQIP) Tool (score 0–36), Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark (score 0–4) and the DISCERN Tool (score 16–80) to analyse websites containing information targeted at the general public.Data sources Twelve popular search terms, including ‘Coronavirus’, ‘COVID-19 19’, ‘Wuhan virus’, ‘How to treat coronavirus’ and ‘COVID-19 19 Prevention’ were identified by ‘Google AdWords’ and ‘Google Trends’. …”
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Assessing the readability, quality and reliability of responses produced by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity regarding most frequently asked keywords about low back pain by Erkan Ozduran, Volkan Hancı, Yüksel Erkin, İlhan Celil Özbek, Vugar Abdulkerimov

“…Reliability was assessed by determining with DISCERN and Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) scales. Results The first three keywords detected as a result of Google Trend search were “Lower Back Pain”, “ICD 10 Low Back Pain”, and “Low Back Pain Symptoms”. …”
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Relationship between social support and depressive symptoms among internal migrant workers and the mediating role of healthy lifestyle: a cross-sectional study in China by Yunyun Wang, Beizhu Ye, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Yiyang Chen, Mingze Ma, Jingru Liu, Shuo Han, Kunyu Xue, Binghe Zuo, Yalin Song

“…A healthy lifestyle was assessed based on the questionnaire we developed based on the American Medical Association Healthy Lifestyle Scale. Statistical analyses, including logistic regression, Spearman’s correlation and mediation analysis, were deployed to explore the associations between social support, healthy lifestyle and depressive symptoms.Results Among 19 326 participants, 21.45% exhibited depressive symptoms, with a higher prevalence observed among males. …”
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