Abstract:Background: Wide variability exists in quality of health related information posted across social media. You Tube is the most frequently visited site for video informatics. In this study we assessed the quality of information available on YouTube regarding colonoscopy. Methods: The YouTube search engine was queried on Oct 21, 2014 under the term "Colonoscopy". Analysis was restricted to English language, medical videos of first 10 pages of search results, generating a total of 186 videos. Videos were classifie… Show more
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