Title |
Review of Twitter for Infectious Diseases Clinicians: Useful or a Waste of Time?
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Published in |
Clinical Infectious Diseases, February 2015
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DOI | 10.1093/cid/civ071 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Debra A. Goff, Ravina Kullar, Jason G. Newland |
Abstract |
Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are using social media tools to communicate, educate and engage with their peers worldwide. Twitter allows HCPs to deliver easily accessible "real-time" clinical information on a global scale. Twitter has over 500 million active users who generate over 58 million tweets and 2.1 billion search queries every day. In this paper, we describe why Twitter is important, how and when an infectious diseases (ID) HCP should use Twitter, the impact it has in disseminating ID news, and the educational value of Twitter. We also describe various tools within Twitter, such as Twitter Chat, that connect and bond HCPs on a specific topic. For the ID HCP, Twitter may help teach the global responsible use of antimicrobials in a world of escalating antimicrobial resistance. |
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