Budge, J; Lenti, L; Azhar, B; Roy, I; Loftus, I; Holt, P
(2024)
Quality Assessment of Elective Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Patient Information on the Internet Using the Modified Ensuring Quality Information for Patients Tool.
Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg, 67 (5).
pp. 738-745.
ISSN 1532-2165
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.01.013
SGUL Authors: Budge, James John Rowland Roy, Iain Nicholas Holt, Peter James Edward Azhar, Bilal
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the quality of patient information material regarding elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair on the internet using the Modified Ensuring Quality Information for Patients (MEQIP) tool. METHODS: A qualitative assessment of internet based patient information was performed. The 12 most used search terms relating to AAA repair were identified using Google Trends, with the first 10 pages of websites retrieved for each term searched. Duplicates were removed, and information for patients undergoing elective AAA were selected. Further exclusion criteria were marketing material, academic journals, videos, and non-English language sites. The remaining websites were then MEQIP scored independently by two reviewers, producing a final score by consensus. RESULTS: A total of 1 297 websites were identified, with 235 (18.1%) eligible for analysis. The median MEQIP score was 18 (interquartile range [IQR] 14, 21) out of a possible 36. The highest score was 33. The 99th percentile MEQIP scoring websites scored > 27, with four of these six sites representing online copies of hospital patient information leaflets, however hospital sites overall had lower median MEQIP scores than most other institution types. MEQIP subdomain median scores were: content, 8 (IQR 6, 11); identification, 3 (IQR 1, 3); and structure, 7 (IQR 6, 9). Of the analysed websites, 77.9% originated from the USA (median score 17) and 12.8% originated in the UK (median score 22). Search engine ranking was related to website institution type but had no correlation with MEQIP. CONCLUSION: When assessed by the MEQIP tool, most websites regarding elective AAA repair are of questionable quality. This is in keeping with studies in other surgical and medical fields. Search engine ranking is not a reliable measure of quality of patient information material regarding elective AAA repair. Health practitioners should be aware of this issue as well as the whereabouts of high quality material to which patients can be directed.
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Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Society for Vascular Surgery. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||||
Keywords: | AAA, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, EQIP, EVAR, MEQIP, Patient information, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal, Humans, Internet, Elective Surgical Procedures, Patient Education as Topic, Consumer Health Information, Vascular Surgical Procedures, AAA, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, EQIP, EVAR, MEQIP, Patient information, 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, 1103 Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular System & Hematology | ||||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > REF 2021 user group TACRI |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1532-2165 | ||||||||
Language: | eng | ||||||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||||
PubMed ID: | 38185375 | ||||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/116019 | ||||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.01.013 |
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