Fertility and Sterility top videos of 2020

Abstract

Objective: To objectively grade all video publications in Fertility and Sterility during 2020 and compile a list of the top 5 surgical videos.

Design: Descriptive presentation of the 5 highest scoring video publications from Fertility and Sterility in 2020 SETTING: Not applicable.

Patient(s)/animal(s): Not applicable.

Intervention(s): J.F., Z.K., J.P.P., and S.R.L. acted as independent reviewers of all video publications. A standardized scoring method was used to score all videos.

Main outcome measure(s): Up to 5 points were awarded for each of the following categories: scientific merit or clinical relevance of the topic, the clarity of the video, the use of innovative surgical technique, and video editing or the use of marking tools on the video to highlight the important features or surgical landmarks. This allowed a maximum score of 20 for each video. The numbers of YouTube views and likes were used as a tiebreaker if ≥2 videos scored similarly. The interclass coefficient from a 2-way random-effects model was calculated to assess for agreement between the 4 independent reviewers.

Result(s): A total of 20 videos were published in Fertility and Sterility during 2020. After averaging scores from all 4 reviewers, a list of top 5 videos was created (Table 1). The overall interclass coefficient for the 4 reviews was 0.77 (95% confidence interval, 0.56-0.89).

Conclusion(s): An overall substantial agreement was noted among the 4 reviewers. Five videos particularly stood out within the competitive peer reviewed publications. The subject matter of these videos ranged from complex surgical procedures, including transvaginal natural orifice surgery and advanced endometriosis to basic embryology laboratory topics that covered trophectoderm biopsy and novel intracytoplasmic sperm injection techniques.

Keywords: Fertility and Sterility; Reproductive surgery; top 5; video publications.