Evaluating YouTube as a Source of Patient Information for Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.

To evaluate the quality of information presented on YouTube regarding functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) for patients. YouTube was searched using FESS-specific keywords under the setting of "relevance." The first 50 videos from each keyword were reviewed and analyzed by 2 independent physician reviewers. Videos not related to FESS and duplicates were excluded. Outcome measures included the modified DISCERN score (range 0-5), the Of the 200 videos identified, 95 videos were analyzed after exclusions. Videos had an average VPI of 40.8 and SD 133.2. Average scores from the 3 objective checklists among all videos were low: modified DISCERN: 1.91, SD: 1.15; There were overall low scores across the modified DISCERN,