Robotic colorectal surgery: quality assessment of patient information available on the internet using webscraping.
Comput Assist Surg (Abingdon)
; 28(1): 2187275, 2023 12.
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ABSTRACT
The primary goal of this study is to assess current patient information available on the internet concerning robotic colorectal surgery. Acquiring this information will aid in patients understanding of robotic colorectal surgery. Data was acquired through a web-scraping algorithm. The algorithm used two Python packages Beautiful Soup and Selenium. The long-chain keywords incorporated into Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines were 'Da Vinci Colon-Rectal Surgery', 'Colorectal Robotic Surgery' and 'Robotic Bowel Surgery'. 207 websites resulted, were sorted and evaluated according to the ensuring quality information for patients (EQIP) score. Of the 207 websites visited, 49 belonged to the subgroup of hospital websites (23.6%), 46 to medical centers (22.2%), 45 to practitioners (21.7%), 42 to health care systems (20,2%), 11 to news services (5.3%), 7 to web portals (3.3%), 5 to industry (2.4%), and 2 to patient groups (0.9%). Only 52 of the 207 websites received a high rating. The quality of available information on the internet concerning robotic colorectal surgery is low. The majority of information was inaccurate. Medical facilities involved in robotic colorectal surgery, robotic bowel surgery and related robotic procedures should develop websites with credible information to guide patient decisions.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Cirugía Colorrectal
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Información de Salud al Consumidor
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Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Robotizados
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Comput Assist Surg (Abingdon)
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suiza