The Current Use of Social Media in Neurosurgery

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 88, Issue , 2016, Pages 619-624.e7

  Alotaibi, Naif M ^a,b   Badhiwala, Jetan H ^a   Nassiri, Farshad ^a   Guha, Daipayan ^a   Ibrahim, George M ^a   Shamji, Mohammed F ^a,c   Lozano, Andres M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Facebook; Neurosurgery; Social media; Twitter; YouTube

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL MEDIA; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROSURGEON; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; NEUROSURGEONS; NEUROSURGERY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PRIVATE PRACTICE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84953330287     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.11.011     Document Type: Article

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