Twitter for travel medicine providers

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Mills, Deborah J ^a   Kohl, Sarah E ^b  

^a Travel Medicine Alliance Clinics   (Australia)

^b Pediatric Alliance   (United States)

Author keywords

Hashtag; Healthcare providers; Social media; Social networking; Travel medicine; Tweet; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPORIATRICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 85010647063     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taw002     Document Type: Review

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