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Dexter L Louie1, Brandon E Earp, Philip E Blazar
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA. dllouie@partners.org
Abstract:
The Internet is available to researchers as a tool for studying long-term outcomes, but no recent research exists on how to best use it. The authors hypothesize that using the Internet can be at least 75% effective in locating patients lost to follow-up. With Institutional Review Board approval, the authors searched for 66 patients lost to follow-up after a period of 10 years or more with no contact. They tested an Internet searching protocol developed in 2004 and developed an alternate protocol. In all, 74% (49/66) of patients were located.