Social media and physicians: Exploring the benefits and challenges

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 99-112

  Panahi, Sirous ^a   Watson, Jason ^b   Partridge, Helen ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

blogging; continuing medical education; healthcare; physician physician relationship; physicians; social media; Twitter messaging; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRUST; WORKPLACE; ADULT; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORK; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; BLOGGING; CONFIDENTIALITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84971291409     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458214540907     Document Type: Article

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