Quality Assessment of YouTube Videos as a Source of Information on Ingrown Toenails

Illustrated by the high number of views, ingrown toenail is a popular health topic on YouTube. Although popular and with content mostly uploaded by health-care professionals, content quality was found to be poor and videos to be unreliable and insufficient for informing patients because most videos seem to be geared toward entertainment rather than direct patient education. Health-care professionals should be aware of the generally low-quality data available.