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The Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Social Media Responses to the Residents’ Perspective Article

Overview of attention for article published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, July 2015
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Title
The Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Social Media Responses to the Residents’ Perspective Article
Published in
Annals of Emergency Medicine, July 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.05.005
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Authors

Esther K. Choo, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, David Juurlink, Scott Kobner, Kevin Scott, Michelle Lin

Abstract

In June 2014, Annals of Emergency Medicine collaborated with the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) blog-based Web site to host an online discussion session featuring the Annals Residents' Perspective article "The Opioid Prescription Epidemic and the Role of Emergency Medicine" by Poon and Greenwood-Ericksen. This dialogue included a live videocast with the authors and other experts, a detailed discussion on the ALiEM Web site's comment section, and real-time conversations on Twitter. Engagement was tracked through various Web analytic tools, and themes were identified by content curation. The dialogue resulted in 1,262 unique page views from 433 cities in 41 countries on the ALiEM Web site, 408,498 Twitter impressions, and 168 views of the video interview with the authors. Four major themes about prescription opioids identified included the following: physician knowledge, inconsistent medical education, balance between overprescribing and effective pain management, and approaches to solutions. Free social media technologies provide a unique opportunity to engage with a diverse community of emergency medicine and non-emergency medicine clinicians, nurses, learners, and even patients. Such technologies may allow more rapid hypothesis generation for future research and more accelerated knowledge translation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Ireland 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 93 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 17%
Student > Master 15 16%
Researcher 9 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Other 22 23%
Unknown 21 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 27%
Social Sciences 11 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 8%
Computer Science 8 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 4%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 25 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 15 April 2020.
All research outputs
#2,395,189
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Annals of Emergency Medicine
#1,390
of 6,822 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,616
of 277,362 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annals of Emergency Medicine
#18
of 58 outputs
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