A Google Trends Approach to Identify Distinct Diurnal and Day-of-Week Web-Based Search Patterns Related to Conjunctivitis and Other Common Eye Conditions: Infodemiology Study

Michael S Deiner   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Gurbani Kaur   ^{2, 3} , AB ;   Stephen D McLeod   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Julie M Schallhorn   ^{1, 2} , MD, MS ;   James Chodosh   ^{4, 5} , MPH, MD ;   Daniel H Hwang   ^{6, 7} ;   Thomas M Lietman   ^{1, 2, 8, 9} , MD ;   Travis C Porco   ^{1, 2, 8, 9} , MPH, PhD

¹ Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Stanford University, San Mateo, CA, United States

⁷ The Nueva School, San Mateo, CA, United States

⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁹ Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States