Are health-related tweets evidence based? review and analysis of health-related tweets on Twitter

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Alnemer, Khalid A ^a   Alhuzaim, Waleed M ^a   Alnemer, Ahmed A ^a   Alharbi, Bader B ^b   Bawazir, Abdulrahman S ^b   Barayyan, Omar R ^b   Balaraj, Faisal K ^b  

^a AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Daily medical information; Diseases; Doctor accounts; Health; Health accounts; Medical accounts; Nutrition accounts

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84946733867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4898     Document Type: Article

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