Background
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The treatment of clinical complaints with over-the-counter (OTC) products plays a substantial role in health care [Little is known about the quality and the kind of electronic information sources that pharmacists use for evidence-based self-medication counseling. Information quality in the context of health is defined as a multidimensional concept that describes the fulfillment of individually predefined criteria [To date, literature about the quality of pharmacists’ electronic information sources for self-medication counseling has been scarce. In particular, studies that investigate the quality based on appropriate standard quality criteria of such electronic information sources are missing.