Assessment of the Quality and Reliability of the Information on Rotator Cuff Repair on YouTube

YouTube® has become a common health information source for patients. Recent studies have determined that videos on YouTube® contain misleading and inappropriate information for different medical conditions. The aim of the present study was to assess the quality and reliability of videos pertaining t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Orthopaedics & traumatology, surgery & research surgery & research, 2020-02, Vol.106 (1), p.31-34
Hauptverfasser: Celik, Haluk, Polat, Omer, Ozcan, Cagri, Camur, Savas, Kilinc, Bekir Eray, Uzun, Metin
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Zusammenfassung:YouTube® has become a common health information source for patients. Recent studies have determined that videos on YouTube® contain misleading and inappropriate information for different medical conditions. The aim of the present study was to assess the quality and reliability of videos pertaining to rotator cuff (RC) repair surgery. YouTube® users prefer watching videos with high educational quality which are provided by physicians. A search was performed using keywords “rotator cuff surgery” and “rotator cuff repair” on YouTube® and the first 100 videos for each keyword were analyzed. Video source, time since upload, duration, and number of views, likes, and dislikes were recorded. Video popularity was reported using the video power index (VPI) and view ratio. Video educational quality was measured using the recognized DISCERN, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) score and a novel RC-specific score (RCSS). Among the 200 videos identified, 67 were included. The mean duration was 7.7minutes and the mean number of the views was 147,430. Videos uploaded by a physician had significantly higher DISCERN, JAMA, and RCSS (p
ISSN:1877-0568
1877-0568
DOI:10.1016/j.otsr.2019.10.004