Key points:
- Patients are increasingly using the internet and YouTube to gain
access to educational material about their medical conditions
- The aim of this study is to evaluate the educational quality of
YouTube content in regards to cholesteatoma
- The DISCERN tool and a novel video scoring tool to measure were used
to evaluate 90 YouTube videos found using search terms concerning
cholesteatoma
- The overall informative quality of the YouTube videos about
cholesteatoma found was poor
- Otology and Otolaryngology societies should be encouraged to publish
high quality, evidence-based patient education resources on platforms
like YouTube