英文摘要 |
Objective: With the popularity of the Internet in recent years, hospital accreditation in Taiwan specifi es that a portal website on health education be made available to the public.Thus, there is a need to study the visibility of portal websites for hospitals in Taiwan. Methods: Five hundred thirteen hospital portal websites were compared. Seventyfi ve keywords (as items) and 273 hospitals (as examinees) were fi tted to the Rasch model (1960) after a serial Rasch analysis was performed. The extremely worldwide popular search engine, Google, incorporated with a computer program to facilitate searching effi ciency was used in the present study. After > 54,891 web page searches, a Likert-type 0-9 score was analyzed to estimate the visibility of each hospital portal website. |