Retrospective review of Google Trends to gauge the popularity of global surgery worldwide: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Global surgery is a growing movement worldwide, but its expansion has not been quantified. Google Search is the most popular search engine worldwide, and Google Trends analyzes its queries to determine popularity trends. We used Google Trends to analyze the regional and temporal popularity of global surgery (GS). Furthermore, we compared GS with global health (GH) to understand if the two were correlated.

Methods

This is a retrospective cross-sectional study examining Google Trends of GS and GH. We searched the terms "global surgery" and "global health" on Google Trends (Google Inc., CA, USA) from January 2004 to May 2021. We identified time trends and compared the two search terms using SPSS v26 (IBM, WA, USA) to run summary descriptive analyses and Wilcoxon ra

SUBMITTER: Sebopelo LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524754 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature