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Assessing the United States’ most frequently asked questions about osteopathic medicine, osteopathic education, and osteopathic manipulative treatment by Nicholas B. Sajjadi; Ryan Ottwell; Samuel Shepard; Natasha Bray; Robin Dyer; Jennifer Wilson; Matt Vassar; Micah Hartwell is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Context: Osteopathic medicine in the United States continues to produce a substantial number of physicians and medical educators. However, recently popularized misconceptions about osteopathic medical practice, education, and manual therapy suggest an unsettling prevalence of inaccurate beliefs held by the public. The public often searches the internet to find out information about osteopathic medicine, but the content of questions and the transparency of the resulting information is unknown. Objectives: We sought to explore frequently asked questions (FAQs) generated by Google to assess commonly searched questions about the osteopathic profession and to determine the level of information transparency associated with resulting sources. Methods: On June 16, 2021, we searched Google for three terms: "osteopathic medicine," "doctor of osteopathic medicine," and "DO," until a minimum of 100 FAQs and their answer links were extracted from each search. After excluding irrelevant FAQs, we used Rothwell's Classification of Questions to categorize the FAQs. We then used the Journal of the American Medical Association's Benchmark Criteria to assess information transparency for each correspon

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Author
Nicholas B. Sajjadi; Ryan Ottwell; Samuel Shepard; Natasha Bray; Robin Dyer; Jennifer Wilson; Matt Vassar; Micah Hartwell
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2022
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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