LIDA | Minervation validation instrument for healthcare websites | Carlsson (2015/2007) | 6 (5 point Likert) | Inter-rater reliability | No | No | None |
EMORY | Health-related website evaluation form emory questionnaire | Bastos (2011), Teach (2009) | 36 (dichotom.) | Not reported | No | No | Blurredly |
AHQA | Andalusian health quality agency | Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucı’a. (2012) | 17 (dichotom.) | Not reported | No | No | None |
GCS | German cancer information scale | Liebl (2015) | 23 (3 point Likert) | Not reported | No | No | Unclear |
DOHHS | Website information reliability evaluation instrument | Devine (2016) | 35 (4 point Likert) | Inter-rater reliability Kappa | No | No | Manual |
AFGIS | Aktion Gesundheitsinformationssystem | Afgis (2016) | 10 | Not reported | No | | Blurredly |
GPGI | Good practice guidelines for health information | Workinggroup GPGI | 15 | Evidence update expert validation | Yes | Yes | None, theoretically |
Medisuch | Institute for quality and transparency of health information | Pauer (2015) | Unclear | Not reported | No | No | Not reported |
eEurope 2002 | Quality criteria for health-related websites | Commission of the European Comm. | 12 | Not reported | No | Yes | No instrument |
NLM | National library of medicine guideline | US National Library of Medicine | – | Not reported | Unclear | Yes | Tutorial |
WebMedQual | Instrument assessing quality of health related websites | Provost (2006) | 95+3 | Content validation expert panel review | No | No | None |
Checklist AWCHI | Checklist for assessing written consumer health information | Currie (2000) | 40 (3 point Likert) | Not reported | Yes | Yes | Not reported |
HON | Health on the net foundation | Selby (1996) | Eight principles | Expert consensus | No | Yes | Yes |
JAMA | Journal of the American Medical Association: Standards for Health Information on the Internet | Silberg (1997) | Unclear | Not reported | No | Yes | Not reported |
DISCERN | Quality criteria for consumer health information | Charnock (1999) | 16 (5-point Likert) | Inter-rater agreement | No | Yes | Manual with examples |
WebEval | University of michigan website evaluation checklist | Anderson (1999) | 43 (dichotom) | Not reported | No | No | Not reported |
HITI | Criteria for assessing the quality of health information on the internet | Ambre (1997) | 127 items | Not reported | No | No | Manual |
SAM | Suitability assessment of materials (SAM) | Doak (1996) | 22 (3 point Likert) | Not reported | No | No | Manual |
Trevena principles | Guiding principles for presentation of risks in Das | Trevena (2012) | – | Evidence update | No | Yes | None |
PEMAT | The patient education materials assessment tool | Shoemaker (2014) | 26 (dichotom) | Inter-rater reliability kappa | Yes | No | Manual with examples |
IPDASi | International patient decision aid standards instrument | Elwyn (2009) | Checklist: 74 Instrum.: 47 Minimal: 44 | Intra-class correlations and Cronbach’s alpha | Yes | No | None |
Kellogg | Evaluation of health information on the internet | University of Dalhousie | Dichotom | Not reported | No longer available |
EBPI | Evidence-based patient information quality criteria | Bunge (2010) | – | Evidence update and ethical | Yes | Yes | Theoretical |
NCCAM | 10 things to know about evaluating medical resources on the web | National Centre for Complem-entary & Inte-grative Health | 10 | Not reported | No | Yes | Unclear |
EQIP (expanded) | Ensuring quality information for patients | Charvet-Berard (2008) | 36 | Reliable, and proved useful | No | No | Unclear |
C-H-i-Q | Centre for health information quality | Shaddock (2002) www.chiq.org | – | None | No | No | |
CHECKED | Austrian quality approval system | Beunders, Fokus Patient | 19–22 | Referring to DISCERN | No | No | Rater training |