Indian endocrine surgery websites are they comparable?

In modern day surgical practice, patients and their relatives garner more knowledge through websites rather than direct interaction with the consultant physician. We aimed to assess whether Indian endocrine surgery websites matched with their counterparts abroad. We identified 60 endocrine surgery w...

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Published in:Annals of medicine and surgery 2020-12, Vol.60, p.487-490
Main Authors: Mahalakshmi D, Vnssvams, Sabaretnam, Mayilvaganan, Warsi, Dabeer, Bhargav, P.R.K., Chekavar, Aromal, Agarwal, Amit
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cohort Study
Endocrine surgery
Parathyroid
Thyroid
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Summary:In modern day surgical practice, patients and their relatives garner more knowledge through websites rather than direct interaction with the consultant physician. We aimed to assess whether Indian endocrine surgery websites matched with their counterparts abroad. We identified 60 endocrine surgery websites worldwide and 12 endocrine surgery websites maintained by trained endocrine surgeons from India. The website parameters, demographic data of the websites, rank, and other parameters were assessed using a professional website (www.Alexa.com). An endocrine surgeon along with a technical website advisor rated the content, presentation, and likes from a scale of 1–5 (1 minimum score and 5 maximum score). A total of 72 individual endocrine surgery websites, out of which 60 were from abroad and 12 were from India, were analyzed. A majority of foreign websites were ranked (43/60), whereas 2/12 Indian websites were ranked (P 
ISSN:2049-0801
2049-0801
DOI:10.1016/j.amsu.2020.11.021