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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 83:951-952 (2001)
© 2001 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letters to The Editor

Orthopaedic Information on the Internet

Michael Nogler, MD, MA, Cornelius Wimmer, MD, AssociateProfessor, Eckart Mayr, MD, Dietmar Öfner, MD, Associate Professor, Pedro K. Beredjiklian, MD, David J. Bozentka, MD, David R. Steinberg, MD and Joseph Bernstein, MD

Corresponding author: Michael Nogler, MD, MA Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Innsbruck, Austria Anichstrasse 35 A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria E-mail address: michael.nogler@uibk.ac.at
Corresponding author: Pedro K. Beredjiklian, MD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 1 Cupp Pavilion Presbyterian Medical Center 39th and Market Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104 E-mail address: pedro.beredjiklian@uphs.upenn.edu

To The Editor:

We read with interest "Evaluating the Source and Content of Orthopaedic Information on the Internet. The Case of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" (82-A: 1540-1543, Nov. 2000), by Beredjiklian et al. The design of this study is similar to that of our study1, to which the authors made no reference in their article. In our study we used six popular search engines to search for four orthopaedic phrases. We evaluated the first fifty sites with regard to language, type of information, and its relevance to medical professionals or patients. Beredjiklian et al. improved upon our study design through the introduction of a score for the informational value, which revealed a rather low mean score of 28.4 points of a maximum 100, with a high standard deviation of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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