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From: Osteochondritis dissecans: analyzing educational content quality and reliability on YouTube

Table 1. Osteochondritis dissecans specific scores (OCDSS), developed by the authors.

Osteochondritis dissecans specific score categories
Patient presentation (2 points total)
Describes symptoms (1 point)
Describes patient population (1 point)
Information on OCD (2 points total)
Describes anatomy (1 point)
Describes causes of OCD (1 point)
Diagnosis and evaluation (5 points total)
Describes physical exam (tenderness, effusion, loss of motion, or crepitus) (1 point)
Mentions limitations of X-ray for diagnostic purposes (1 point)
Mentions use of MRI as gold standard (1 point)
Describes surgical candidates (1 point)
Describes nonsurgical candidates (1 point)
Treatment (2 points total)
Describes surgical treatment (1 point)
Describes nonsurgical treatment (1 point)

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One point is assigned for each criterion met by the video (maximum 11, minimum 0). Inspired by previous studies [15]. OCD: osteochondritis dissecans.

Declarations

Author contributions

TML: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Visualization, Data curation, Writing—original draft. JL and DN: Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing—review & editing. DC: Supervision, Writing—review & editing, Project administration. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

Not applicable.

Consent to participate

Not applicable.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Funding

No funding was used for this study.

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