Review of twitter for infectious diseases clinicians: Useful or a waste of time?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1533-1540

  Goff, Debra A ^a   Kullar, Ravina ^b   Newland, Jason G ^c  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

education; infectious diseases; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929191358     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ071     Document Type: Article

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