Measuring health information dissemination and identifying target interest communities on twitter: Methods development and case study of the @safetymd network

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Kandadai, Venk ^a   Yang, Haodong ^b   Jiang, Ling ^c   Yang, Christopher C ^a   Fleisher, Linda ^b   Winston, Flaura Koplin ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital Health; Dissemination; Health Communication; Health Information; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996825865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.4203     Document Type: Article

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