Assessing COVID-19 Health Information on Google Using the Quality Evaluation Scoring Tool (QUEST): Cross-sectional and Readability Analysis

Vismaya S Bachu   ¹ , BS ;   Heba Mahjoub   ¹ , BS ;   Albert E Holler   ¹ , BA ;   Tudor Crihalmeanu   ² , MHS ;   Dheevena M Bachu   ³ ;   Varun Ayyaswami   ⁴ , MD ;   Pearman D Parker   ⁵ , MPH, PhD ;   Arpan V Prabhu   ⁶ , MD

¹ School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

² School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States

³ Department of Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States

⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁵ College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States

⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Winthrop P Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Little Rock, AR, United States