Qualitative twitter analysis of participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content at a major urologic conference

Journal of the Canadian Urological Association

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2February, 2016, Pages 39-43

  Borgmann, Hendrik ^a   Woelm, Jan Henning ^a   Merseburger, Axel ^b   Nestler, Tim ^c   Salem, Johannes ^d   Brandt, Maximilian P ^a   Haferkamp, Axel ^a   Loeb, Stacy ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery   (Germany)

^c Armed Forces Hospital Koblenz   (Germany)

^d St Joseph Hospital   (Germany)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 84958551146     PISSN: 19116470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.3322     Document Type: Article

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