Social media in urology: Opportunities, applications, appropriate use and new horizons

Central European Journal of Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 293-298

  Gómez Rivas, Juan ^a   Rodríguez Socarrás, Moises ^b   Tortolero Blanco, Leonardo ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b Alvaro Cunqueiro University Hospital of Vigo   (Spain)

^c Neurology Section   (Spain)

Author keywords

Oncology tag; Social media; Twitter; Urology

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; ONCOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; UROLOGIST; UROLOGY;

EID: 84990050464     PISSN: 20804806     EISSN: 20804873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5173/ceju.2016.848     Document Type: Review

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