Accessing the Internet for Patient Information About Orthopedics
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To the Editor.—Patients want information about their medical condition from their physician, and it is not uncommon for patients to present at clinics with printed information obtained from the Internet.1-2 There are few reports about the accessibility of patient information on the Internet for those who want to improve their knowledge of their medical condition. We conducted a descriptive study to explore the accessibility and volume of orthopedic patient information on the Internet using nonmedical terms. Our aim was to categorize the information a patient would get when searching the Internet about his/her medical condition.
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A questionnaire was administered to 100 consecutive orthopedic patients with knee (meniscal or anterior cruciate ligament) injuries attending outpatient clinics to determine what terms and keywords they would use to describe their medical condition. The 25 most frequently used terms were used to retrieve information from the Internet from 5 search engines (AltaVista, Excite, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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