Is YouTube a reliable source of health-related information? A systematic review (3)

25 May, 2022

Neil Pakenham-Walsh comments [*see note below]

Finally: 'There is a need for research to identify common features that can be used as quality indicators in health-related videos. Using this information will help users make the appropriate selection. There is also need for research to identify common characteristics that can serve as indicators of health-related video quality. Identifying these characteristics will be helpful in selecting health-related videos.'

There is quite an extensive literature on assessing health resources. I have almost all of the recent ones, as they appear in PubMed, referenced in my Biomed News report on Biomedical Librarianship at http://biomed.news/bims-librar

What we don't have is a Biomed News report on medical missinformation. If somebody has a long-run interest in that topic maintaining a report on this matter will surely be of interest to this community.

--

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel

http://openlib.org/home/krichel

skype:thomaskrichel

HIFA profile: Thomas Krichel is Founder of the Open Library Society, United States of America. Professional interests: See my homepage at http://openlib.org/home/krichel Email address: krichel@openlib.org

[*Note from NPW, moderator: The text 'There is a need... in selecting health-related videos' is a verbatim quote from the authors' conclusion.]