From: Portals to Wonderland: Health portals lead to confusing information about the effects of health care
Portal | Included hits | Information about effects | Qualitative statements about the effect of the intervention | Quantitative statements about the effect of the intervention | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  | Qualitative statement | Statement unclear | Statement not consistent with review | Statement consistent with review | Quantitative statement | Cochrane review abstract | Statement incomplete and potentially misleading | Statement consistent but incomplete | Statement consistent with review |
Canadian Health Network | 22 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Health-Insite | 38 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Medline Plus | 77 | 46 | 41 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
NHS Direct Online | 18 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL | 155 | 92 | 77 | 26 | 15 | 36* | 15 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 1 |