Leveraging social supports for improving personal expertise on ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation

IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2013 Mar;17(2):370-80. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2226737. Epub 2012 Oct 26.

Abstract

In this paper, a social health support system is developed to assist both ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) patients and clinicians on making better decisions and choices for ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation. By providing a good platform to enable more effective sharing of personal expertise and ACL treatments, our social health support system can allow: (1) ACL patients to identify the best-matching social groups and locate the most suitable expertise for personal health management; and (2) clinicians to easily locate the best-matching ACL patients and learn from well-done treatments, so that they can make better decisions for new ACL patients (who have similar ACL injuries and close social principles with those best-matching ACL patients) and prescribe safer and more effective knee rehabilitation treatments.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament / surgery*
  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries*
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Information Seeking Behavior
  • Knee Injuries / rehabilitation*
  • Knee Injuries / surgery*
  • Models, Biological*
  • Plastic Surgery Procedures
  • Social Support*