Quantifying the Twitter influence of third party commercial entities versus healthcare providers in thirteen medical conferences from 2011-2013

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Desai, Tejas ^a,b   Dhingra, Vibhu ^c   Shariff, Afreen ^d   Shariff, Aabid ^e   Lerma, Edgar ^f   Singla, Parteek ^g   Kachare, Swapnil ^c   Syed, Zoheb ^h   Minhas, Deeba ⁱ   Madanick, Ryan ^j   Fang, Xiangming ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NOD Analytics   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^g BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

ⁱ CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAFETY;

EID: 84992161397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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