YouTube as a Source of Patient Information: Assessing Quality of Information in Brachytherapy Education Videos

YouTube is the third most popular website in the world and is also a major web-based video-sharing platform of online healthcare resources. Despite being a major resource of healthcare information, videos uploaded on YouTube are not peer-reviewed, and their contents are not screened for scientific accuracy prior to being uploaded. There is declining use of brachytherapy for treatment of various cancers, and lack of awareness about advantages of this modality may contribute to this trend. Our study aimed to determine the quality of brachytherapy patient education videos with respect to informed consent guidelines from the American College of Radiology.