id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-326208-z49517nf Lins Filho, P. C. Assessing the quality, readability and reliability of online information on COVID-19: aninfoveillance observational study 2020-05-30 .txt text/plain 1677 117 53 Objective: This study aimed to assess the quality, reliability and readability of internet-based information on COVID-19 available on Brazil most used search engines. The websites content quality and reliability were evaluated using the DISCERN questionnaire, the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark criteria, and the presence of the Health on Net (HON) certification. The quality of information of the selected websites was assessed using criteria of the Journal of the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. In the present study such correlation was not found possibly due the growing concern about the 228 quality of health-related information available online (Farooq et al. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.30.20117614 doi: medRxiv preprint was found, which demonstrates the need for further efforts on improving the accessibility of high-quality 230 health related information available online. ./cache/cord-326208-z49517nf.txt ./txt/cord-326208-z49517nf.txt