Assessing the readability of online information about jones fracture  

作　　者：Khaled Farid Khaled Al-Kharouf Faisal Idrees Khan Greg AJ Robertson 

机构地区：[1]Orthopaedic Surgery,Portsmouth Hospitals University,Portsmouth PO63 LY,United Kingdom [2]Internal Medicine,Tunbridge Wells Hospital,Tunbridge Wells E105NJ,United Kingdom [3]Orthopaedic Surgery,Queen Alexandra Hospital,Portsmouth PO63LY,United Kingdom

出　　处：《World Journal of Methodology》2023年第5期439-445,共7页世界方法学杂志

摘　　要：BACKGROUND Hand in hand with technological advancements,treatment modalities continue to grow.With the turn of the century,the internet has become the number one source of information for almost every topic.Thus,many patients look toward the internet as their primary source of information to learn about their respective medical conditions.The American Medical Association and National Institute of Health strongly recommend that online medical information be written at the 6th to 8th-grade level to aid comprehension by patients of all literacy backgrounds.AIM To assess the readability of online information regarding Jones fracture.Our hypothesis is that the reading level of medical information published on websites far exceeds the recommended reading level of 6th-8th grade as proposed by the American Medical Associate and National Institute of Health.The result of this study can help us formulate improved recommendations for publishing more comprehensible material and,thus,eventually improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes.METHODS The exact phrase“Jones fracture”was queried on the three most common search engines,Google,Yahoo!,and Bing,on December 28,2022.As of December 2022,Google held 84%,Bing held 9%,and Yahoo!held 2%of the worldwide search engine market share.Web pages uniform resource locator from the first three pages of search results were recorded from each search engine.These web pages were classified according to academic,physician-sponsored,governmental and non-government organizations(NGO),commercial,and unspecified as per formally defined categories.Websites associated with an educational institution or medical organization were classified as academic.Websites with products for sale,corporate sponsorship,or advertisements were classified as commercial.Governmental websites or NGOs comprised those that received government subsidies or grants.Webpages that were independently owned by physicians or physician groups were respectively classed as physician sponsored.The remainder of websites tha

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分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]