Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital de Denia, Alicante, España.
Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital de Denia, Alicante, España.
Rev Esp Cir Ortop Traumatol (Engl Ed). 2020 Mar-Apr;64(2):108-113. doi: 10.1016/j.recot.2019.10.003. Epub 2019 Nov 22.
There is a current trend in the population to search the Internet for unqualified medical information that may affect the recommendations given in specialist consultation. The aim of this study was to analyse the tendency of the Spanish population to search the Internet for unqualified information on current treatments for osteoarthritis.
Google Trends was used analyse the information gathered from the Internet, combining potential key search terms related to the current treatment of osteoarthritis. For each term the relative search volume was calculated, and its trend between 2009 and 2019. Spearman's correlation was used to study the direction of the trend.
All the infiltration methods had increasing trends and no statistically significant differences were found between them (P=.769). The term that showed the best correlation over time was «prp» with Spearman's correlation =.90, and the term with the highest relative search volume was «growth factors». Prosthetic treatment generated more interest than conservative treatments, where there was more interest in knee replacement than hip replacement (P<.001).
In Spain, the search for unqualified information on the treatment of osteoarthritis has increased over the past 10 years. There is more interest in prosthetic treatment than the more conservative treatments. There is more interest in knee replacement than hip replacement. There are no differences with regard to the different methods of joint injections.
目前，人们有在互联网上搜索不合格医疗信息的趋势，这可能会影响专家咨询时给出的建议。本研究旨在分析西班牙人群搜索有关骨关节炎当前治疗方法的不合格信息的倾向。
使用 Google Trends 分析从互联网上收集的信息，结合与骨关节炎当前治疗相关的潜在关键搜索词。对于每个术语，计算其相对搜索量，并计算 2009 年至 2019 年的趋势。使用 Spearman 相关分析研究趋势的方向。
所有渗透方法均呈上升趋势，且彼此之间无统计学差异（P=.769）。随着时间推移相关性最佳的术语是“PRP”，Spearman 相关系数为.90，相对搜索量最高的术语是“生长因子”。人工关节治疗比保守治疗更受关注，其中膝关节置换术比髋关节置换术更受关注（P<.001）。
在西班牙，过去 10 年来，人们对骨关节炎治疗的不合格信息的搜索量有所增加。人们对人工关节治疗的兴趣高于更保守的治疗方法。膝关节置换术比髋关节置换术更受关注。对于不同的关节内注射方法，没有差异。
