ArticleArthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation2023
Indications for Surgery, Activities After Surgery, and Pain Are the Most Commonly Asked Questions in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Reconstruction.
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- Microsoft Copilot Provides More Accurate and Reliable Information About Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Repair Than ChatGPT and Google Gemini; However, No Resource Was Overall the Best.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Four-Stranded Semitendinosus Tendon Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With Mini-invasive Anterolateral Ligament Reconstruction.Arthroscopy techniques · 2024Article
- ChatGPT-4 Generates More Accurate and Complete Responses to Common Patient Questions About Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Than Google's Search Engine.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2024Article
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Abstract
Purpose: To leverage Google's search algorithms to summarize the most commonly asked questions regarding anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries and surgery. Methods: Six terms related to ACL tear and/or surgery were searched on a clean-installed Google Chrome browser. The list of questions and their associated websites on the Google search page were extracted after multiple search iterations performed in January of 2022. Questions and websites were categorized according to Rothwell's criteria. Results: A total of 273 unique questions associated with 204 websites were identified. The most frequently asked questions involved Indications/Management (20.2%), Specific Activities (15.8%), and Pain (10.3%). The most common websites were Medical Practice (27.9%), Academic (23.5%), and Commercial (19.5%). In Academic websites, questions regarding Specific Activities were seldom included (4.7%) whereas questions regarding Pain were frequently addressed (39.3%, Conclusions: The most searched questions on Google regarding ACL tears or surgery related to indications for surgery, pain, and activities postoperatively. Health information resources stemmed from Medical Practice (27.9%) followed by Academic (23.5%) and Commercial (19.5%) websites. Medical websites had lower JAMA quality scores compared with nonmedical websites. Clinical Relevance: These findings presented may assist physicians in addressing the most frequently searched questions while also guiding their patients to greater-quality resources regarding ACL injuries and surgery.
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