Trends in Twitter Use by Physicians at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, 2010 and 2011
Authors:
- 1 May 2012
- journal article
- business of-oncology
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Oncology Practice
- Vol. 8 (3) , 173-178
Abstract
Despite the 140-character limit, Twitter was used by physicians at the 2010 and 2011 ASCO Annual Meetings to engage in clinical discussions, whether or not an author was on site as a live attendee.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Professionalism in the Digital AgeAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2011
- Tweet meNature Methods, 2011
- Physicians on TwitterJAMA, 2011
- Social media and compliant pharmaceutical industry promotion: The ASCO 2010 Twitter experienceJournal of Medical Marketing: Device, Diagnostic and Pharmaceutical Marketing, 2011
- Pandemics in the Age of Twitter: Content Analysis of Tweets during the 2009 H1N1 OutbreakPLOS ONE, 2010
- Dissemination of health information through social networks: Twitter and antibioticsAmerican Journal of Infection Control, 2010
- Social media policies at US medical schoolsMedical Education Online, 2010
- The Role of Social Networking Applications in the Medical Academic EnvironmentInternational Anesthesiology Clinics, 2010
- Oncologists Using Twitter to Advance Cancer KnowledgeOncology Times, 2010
- Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and OpennessJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2008