Social Media and the Practicing Hematologist: Twitter 101 for the Busy Healthcare Provider

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 405-412

  Thompson, Michael A ^a   Majhail, Navneet S ^b   Wood, William A ^c   Perales, Miguel Angel ^d,e   Chaboissier, Mélanie ^f  

^a Aurora Health Care   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Lymphoma Working Party   (Spain)

Author keywords

Communication; Crowdfunding; Facebook; Hematology; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

FUNDING; HEMATOLOGIST; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84949529016     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-015-0286-x     Document Type: Review

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