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Dissemination of evidence in paediatric emergency medicine: a quantitative descriptive evaluation of a 16-week social media promotion

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Open, June 2018
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Title
Dissemination of evidence in paediatric emergency medicine: a quantitative descriptive evaluation of a 16-week social media promotion
Published in
BMJ Open, June 2018
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022298
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Authors

Allison Gates, Robin Featherstone, Kassi Shave, Shannon D Scott, Lisa Hartling

Abstract

TRanslating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) and Cochrane Child Health collaborate to develop knowledge products on paediatric emergency medicine topics. Via a targeted social media promotion, we aimed to increase user interaction with the TREKK and Cochrane Child Health Twitter accounts and the uptake of TREKK Bottom Line Recommendations (BLRs) and Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs). Quantitative descriptive evaluation. We undertook this study and collected data via the internet. Our target users included online healthcare providers and health consumers. For 16 weeks, we used Twitter accounts (@TREKKca and @Cochrane_Child) and the Cochrane Child Health blog to promote 6 TREKK BLRs and 16 related Cochrane SRs. We published 1 blog post and 98 image-based tweets per week. The primary outcome was user interaction with @TREKKca and @Cochrane_Child. Secondary outcomes were visits to TREKK's website and the Cochrane Child Health blog, clicks to and views of the TREKK BLRs, and Altmetric scores and downloads of Cochrane SRs. Followers to @TREKKca and @Cochrane_Child increased by 24% and 15%, respectively. Monthly users of TREKK's website increased by 29%. Clicks to the TREKK BLRs increased by 22%. The BLRs accrued 59% more views compared with the baseline period. The 16 blog posts accrued 28% more views compared with the 8 previous months when no new posts were published. The Altmetric scores for the Cochrane SRs increased by ≥10 points each. The mean number of full text downloads for the promotion period was higher for nine and lower for seven SRs compared with the 16-week average for the previous year (mean difference (SD), +4.0 (22.0%)). There was increased traffic to TREKK knowledge products and Cochrane SRs during the social media promotion. Quantitative evidence supports blogging and tweeting as dissemination strategies for evidence-based knowledge products.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 50 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 16%
Researcher 7 14%
Student > Master 5 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 3 6%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 16 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 20%
Computer Science 6 12%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 20 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. 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 25 October 2019.
All research outputs
#853,856
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Open
#1,464
of 25,597 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,682
of 342,579 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Open
#43
of 525 outputs
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