Consulting Dr. Google: Quality of Online Resources About Tympanostomy Tube Placement
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Consulting Dr. Google: Quality of Online Resources About Tympanostomy Tube Placement.
OBJECTIVE Tympanostomy tube (TT) placement is common in children; however, family-centeredness and utility of online information used for decision making and understanding is unknown. We evaluate the quality of leading Internet resources describing TT placement. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive design. METHODS We performed a Google (Menlo Park, CA) search for terms related to TTs. W...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Laryngoscope
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0023-852X
DOI: 10.1002/lary.26824