ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF INFERTILITY RESOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB: TOOLS TO GUIDE CLIENTS THROUGH THE MAZE OF FACT AND FICTION

The Internet has become a major source of health information for women, but information placed on the World Wide Web does not routinely undergo a peer review process before dissemination. In this study, we present an analysis of 197 infertility-related Web sites for quality and accountability, using JAMA's minimal core standards for responsible print. Only 2% of the web sites analyzed met all four recommended standards, and 50.8% failed to...