title: Leveraging social supports for improving personal expertise on ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation.
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.
authors.forename: Jinye
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Naiquan Nigel
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016118:Anterior Cruciate Ligament / Q000601:surgery*; D000070598:Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D057226:Information Seeking Behavior; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery*; D008954:Models, Biological; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012944:Social Support