Atsushi Yamamura, Shotaro Watanabe, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Kazunari Iwata, Seji Kimura, Yukio Mikami, Kaoru Toguchi, Takuya Sakamoto, Ryu Ito, Hirofumi Nakajima, Takahisa Sasho, Seiji Ohtori
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to quantify the readability and quality of online patient resources on knee osteoarthritis and lumbar spinal stenosis in Japan. METHODS: Three search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing) were searched for the terms knee osteoarthritis and lumbar spinal stenosis. The first 30 websites of each search were screened. Duplicate websites and those unrelated to the searched diseases were excluded. The remaining 125 websites (62 on knee osteoarthritis, 63 on lumbar spinal stenosis) were analyzed...
August 18, 2023: Journal of Orthopaedic Science: Official Journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association