Social media use by physicians: A qualitative study of the new frontier of medicine

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Campbell, Lauren ^a,b   Evans, Yolanda ^b,c   Pumper, Megan ^c   Moreno, Megan A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICIAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESPONSIBILITY; SAMPLING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNCERTAINTY; ADULT; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84987678834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0327-y     Document Type: Article

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