Scoring

Ease of Use

Navigating the website can be tricky due to the organization of such a wealth of material. Each link leads to another page featuring 3-4 times the amount of links as the original, some of which further lead to other links and resources.

Visual Design

Bare but clean visual design. Not many graphics or engaging multimedia. Overall it gives off a clinical impression, certainly in-line with the organization's image.

Quality

A lot of the site's content exists as links to other websites. Invariably these are high quality sources like the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, PubMed, Lab Tests Online, etc. The content featured on this website is helpful and patient-friendly. Helpful operation brochures are available for patients undergoing appendectomy, colonoscopy, hernia repair, and other common procedures.

Credibility

This website publishes dozens of surgery-related brochures, and each features the names of medical reviewers as well as dates of revision. The pre-surgical, informed consent, and pain management information does not list authors and only some show the last update. The reputation of the organization gives credibility to the site.