Content and Quality of Websites for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: An Environmental Scan.
Michelle D SmekalSarah GilMaoliosa DonaldHeather BeanlandsSharon StrausGwen HerringtonDwight SparkesLori HarwoodAllison TongAllan GrillKaren TuBlair WaldvogelChantel LargeClaire LargeMarta NovakMatthew JamesMeghan J ElliottMaria DelgadoScott BrimbleSusan SamuelBrenda R HemmelgarnPublished in: Canadian journal of kidney health and disease (2019)
Although many CKD web sites were of reasonable quality, their readability was poor. Furthermore, most sites covered less than 30% of the content patients identified as important for CKD self-management. These results will inform content gaps in internet-accessible information on CKD self-management that should be addressed by future eHealth web-based tools.