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| Title |
Medicine, morality and health care social media
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-83 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Farris K Timimi |
| Abstract |
Social media includes many different forms of technology including online forums, blogs, microblogs (i.e. Twitter), wikipedias, video blogs, social networks and podcasting. The use of social media has grown exponentially and time spent on social media sites now represents one in five minutes spent online. Concomitant with this online growth, there has been an inverse trajectory in direct face-to-face patient-provider moments, which continue to become scarcer across the spectrum of health care. In contrast to standard forms of engagement and education, social media has advantages to include profound reach, immediate availability, an archived presence and broad accessibility. Our opportunity as health care providers to partner with our patients has never been greater, yet all too often we allow risk averse fears to limit our ability to truly leverage our good content effectively to the online community. This risk averse behavior truly limits our capacity to effectively engage our patients where they are--online. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 205 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 54 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 22 | 11% |
| Canada | 13 | 6% |
| Australia | 12 | 6% |
| Spain | 6 | 3% |
| France | 5 | 2% |
| India | 4 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 24 | 12% |
| Unknown | 60 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 129 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 37 | 18% |
| Scientists | 23 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 16 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 122 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 112 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 13% |
| Researcher | 12 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 16% |
| Unknown | 22 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 30% |
| Computer Science | 13 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 28 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 171. 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 24 October 2018.
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#239,806
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#209
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#1,101
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#3
of 44 outputs
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