Quality of health information available for the geriatric population over the Internet using DISCERN and Flesch Kincaid tools: An Evaluation Study

Information over the internet is freely available. Much of Internet Geriatric Health Information (IGHI) is not controlled for quality hence to address this issue, this study aims to understand the quality, readability and the grade level required to comprehend the content given on the website for geriatric populations using different assessment tools. For our study we used the DISCERN tool to assess the quality of content given on a webpage.