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Use of Twitter Polls to Determine Public Opinion Regarding Content Presented at a Major National Specialty Society Meeting

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the American College of Radiology, September 2016
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Title
Use of Twitter Polls to Determine Public Opinion Regarding Content Presented at a Major National Specialty Society Meeting
Published in
Journal of the American College of Radiology, September 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.jacr.2016.07.024
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Authors

Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, C. Matthew Hawkins

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using Twitter polls to assess public opinion regarding session content at a national specialty society meeting. Twitter polls allow users to embed multiple-choice questions within tweets and automatically aggregate responses. Two radiologists attending the 2016 annual meeting of the ACR posted a Twitter poll containing the hashtag #ACR2016 during 10 meeting sessions addressing socioeconomics/advocacy, patient experience, and social media/informatics (20 polls total). Each poll contained a question asking for an opinion regarding the session's content. Polls were open for responses for 24 hours. The average number of responses per poll was significantly higher for the user with the larger number of Twitter followers (24.3 ± 14.4 versus 11.2 ± 9.8, P = .015). A total of 57% of respondents agreed that radiologists' payments should shift to value-based payments, and 86% agreed that radiologists should routinely survey their patients to monitor quality; however, 83% disagreed with basing physician payments on patient satisfaction scores. A total of 85% disagreed that the artificial intelligence supercomputer Watson will entirely replace radiologists. A total of 76% agreed that social media can drive business at less cost than standard marketing. A total of 56% agreed with the direction of the ACR's advocacy and regulatory efforts, whereas 74% considered the ACR's advocacy efforts to be moderately or very useful for their practice. A total of 50% planned to change their practice on the basis of keynote remarks by Dr Ezekiel Emanuel. Twitter polls provide a free and easy infrastructure to potentially capture global public sentiment during the course of a medical society meeting. Their use may enrich and promote discussions of key session content.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 57 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 19%
Student > Postgraduate 6 10%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 16 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 28%
Social Sciences 4 7%
Psychology 3 5%
Engineering 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 18 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 September 2021.
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#7,355,930
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the American College of Radiology
#1,712
of 3,479 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#104,419
of 329,889 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the American College of Radiology
#48
of 104 outputs
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