A quality assessment of YouTube as an information resource for tonsillectomy.

Purpose: Online resources are increasingly being utilised by patients to guide their clinical decision making, as an alternative or supplement to the traditional clinical-patient relationship. YouTube is an online repository of user and community generated videos, which is one of the most popular websites globally. We undertook a study to examine the quality of information presented in YouTube videos related to tonsillectomy.

Cannabis and its therapeutic value in the ageing population: Attitudes of health-care providers.

Objective(s): To explore the attitudes of health-care providers and the perceived barriers and facilitators regarding the use of cannabis-containing medicines (CCMs) in older patients.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews with eleven health-care providers in rural New South Wales (NSW). A thematic analysis was performed.