Akshay Aluri, Grant Wagner, Stefan Kovac, Paxton Peacock, Nikhi P Singh, Carter J Boyd, Jorge I de la Torre, Timothy W King
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Abstract
Background: Hospital websites play a key role when patients seek specialist care. Patients may become overwhelmed with the number of search results generated by hospital websites when looking for facial aesthetics procedures. This study characterizes plastic surgeons' representation on major hospital system websites in the United States for facial aesthetic procedures.
Methods: The "find a doctor" tool on the top 20 US hospitals, as described in the US News and World Report's Hospital Rankings 2020-2021, was queried for 6 facial aesthetic procedures: rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, face lift, neck lift, blepharoplasty, and brow lift. Physician information such as their sex, medical specialty, medical school location, and residency program was recorded.
Results: Our study revealed 1189 healthcare professionals, with 1077 being physicians. Plastic surgeons were consistently underrepresented in the results for each of the six search terms. The search term "blepharoplasty" produced the greatest number of plastic surgeons (44%), whereas the term "facial rejuvenation" produced the lowest number of plastic surgeons (32%). Nonsurgeons represented 6% of queries.
Conclusions: This study highlights the underrepresentation of plastic surgeons on hospital websites when searching for common facial aesthetic procedures. Factors such as the prevalence of procedures performed outside of hospitals, overlapping procedural privileges, and search engine inaccuracies may contribute to this issue. Patients may face challenges locating a plastic surgeon and could benefit from more streamlined guidance when using hospital websites.
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open is an open access, peer reviewed, international journal focusing on global plastic and reconstructive surgery.Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open publishes on all areas of plastic and reconstructive surgery, including basic science/experimental studies pertinent to the field and also clinical articles on such topics as: breast reconstruction, head and neck surgery, pediatric and craniofacial surgery, hand and microsurgery, wound healing, and cosmetic and aesthetic surgery. Clinical studies, experimental articles, ideas and innovations, and techniques and case reports are all welcome article types. Manuscript submission is open to all surgeons, researchers, and other health care providers world-wide who wish to communicate their research results on topics related to plastic and reconstructive surgery. Furthermore, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open, a complimentary journal to Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, provides an open access venue for the publication of those research studies sponsored by private and public funding agencies that require open access publication of study results. Its mission is to disseminate high quality, peer reviewed research in plastic and reconstructive surgery to the widest possible global audience, through an open access platform. As an open access journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open offers its content for free to any viewer. Authors of articles retain their copyright to the materials published. Additionally, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery—Global Open provides rapid review and publication of accepted papers.
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