Estanislau Alexandre Ramos, Nobre Daniel Magalhães, Naback Filipe Dias Nassar, Barros Tomás Santos Vasconcelos, Souza Luiz Felipe Mundim DE, Penido Pedro Cid Loureiro
Hospital Metropolitano Odilon Behrens, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Acta Ortop Bras. 2022 Nov 11;30(5):e252728. doi: 10.1590/1413-785220223005e252728. eCollection 2022.
The internet has been changing the doctor-patient relationship in the orthopedic area, especially in recent months, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To gather information on the use of social networks regarding orthopedics and traumatology, as well as patient opinions on telemedicine.
Cross-sectional study with 237 patients discharged from the orthopedics outpatient clinic of the Odilon Behrens Metropolitan Hospital, in service exclusively for the SUS, answered a questionnaire containing questions related to the use of the internet, social networks, and telemedicine in the current context.
Most participants never or rarely look for information on the internet before or after the medical appointment; but when they do, the search results are rarely enlightening. There was a lower demand for information among men when compared with women. There were no significant differences regarding the age of the participants who agreed that most appointments will be carried out over the internet in the future.
The search for medical information on social networks is a global reality, but it still generates disagreements regarding its effectiveness and scope. More studies are needed in different orthopedic services for further analysis on the use of social networks within this field.
由于新冠疫情，互联网一直在改变骨科领域的医患关系，尤其是在最近几个月。
收集有关骨科和创伤学领域社交网络使用情况以及患者对远程医疗看法的信息。
对从奥迪隆·贝伦斯大都会医院骨科门诊出院的237名患者进行横断面研究，该门诊专为单一卫生系统（SUS）服务，患者回答了一份问卷，其中包含与当前背景下互联网、社交网络和远程医疗使用相关的问题。
大多数参与者在就医前或就医后从未或很少在互联网上查找信息；但当他们查找时，搜索结果很少能提供有价值的信息。与女性相比，男性对信息的需求较低。对于同意未来大多数预约将通过互联网进行的参与者，其年龄方面没有显著差异。
在社交网络上搜索医疗信息是一个全球普遍现象，但关于其有效性和范围仍存在分歧。需要在不同的骨科服务机构进行更多研究，以进一步分析该领域社交网络的使用情况。
