How health care professionals use social media to create virtual communities: An integrative review

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Rolls, Kaye ^a,b,c   Hansen, Margaret ^d   Jackson, Debra ^e,f,g   Elliott, Doug ^b  

^a Sage Building   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^e OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health personnel; Literature review; Midwives; Nurses; Pharmacist; Physicians; Social media; Social networking; Social worker

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA EXTRACTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERVIEW; MEDLINE; MIDWIFE; MODEL; NARRATIVE; NURSE; PERSONALITY TEST; PHARMACIST; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL WORKER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84977592666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.5312     Document Type: Article

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