Factors Associated with the Quality of Online Information about Scapholunate Interosseous Ligament Insufficiency.

ABSTRACT: Background The Internet is increasingly used by patients to seek health information about their medical conditions. The online information is of variable quality, often difficult to read, and sometimes inaccurate or misleading. This study assessed factors associated with the quality, readability, and dominant tones of online information about scapholunate interosseous ligament (SLIL) insufficiency. Materials and Methods Using the three most used search engines, we entered the terms "wrist sprain," "scapholunate ligament injury," and "SL dissociation" and assessed the quality of the 45 Web sites identified using the DISCERN tool, readability by the Flesch Reading Ease Score, the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, the Gunning Fog Index, and the Simple Measure Of Gobbledygook, and domi

SUBMITTER: Bakker D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature