Should Critical Care Professionals Take Hoaxes/Rumours Seriously?

Nădășan, Valentin

doi:10.1515/jccm-2016-0030

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“…Meanwhile, numerous rumor, fake news, hoaxes spread on the Internet, as shown in Reference 17. During that decade, rumors spread on the Twitter platform that Barack Obama got injured due to an attack on the White House, which shook the world 18 .…”

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Rumor, misinformation among web: A contemporary review of rumor detection techniques during different web waves

Rani

Das

Bhardwaj

2021

Concurrency and Computation

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Summary Sometimes, unverified information is disseminated as if it is true information on social media sites. Most of the times, it goes viral and affects the belief of people and their emotions. Rumors and fake news are the most popular form of false and unconfirmed information. Such news must be identified quickly for preventing its negative impact on society. In the last decade, operational procedures for rumors and false news detection came into existence. This paper provides a holistic view of different web waves from web 1.0 to web 5.0 and their usages. Further, taxonomy describes various malicious information contents at different stages. It discusses features used for classification, publicly available datasets, the rumor detection methods proposed during web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 periods, and comprehensive analysis related to various methods and techniques. Numerous research gaps and future directions are illustrated to make online information more trustworthy for knowledge sharing and decision‐making purposes.

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Section: Terminology Used: Web Waves and Social Media Rumormentioning

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Rumor, misinformation among web: A contemporary review of rumor detection techniques during different web waves

Rani

Das

Bhardwaj

2021

Concurrency and Computation

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“…In order to increase the level of objectivity of the assessment, the evaluations were performed by health professionals or medical students, all evaluators followed a common set of detailed instructions and, each website was assessed by two independent evaluators. After inter-grader agreement was statistically checked using Cohen's kappa test, a consensus evaluation was performed whenever it was necessary (kappa <0, 8). Another limitation that should be clarified is the apparently small number of websites evaluated for each language.…”

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“…While the Internet has been recognized as a useful educational resource not only for medical professionals but for consumers as well, a number of studies in the field of consumer health informatics have raised several reasons of concern, such as increased exposure of patients to incomplete, inaccurate, misguided or fraudulent health claims [4][5][6]. Misleading online information may have undesired consequences on the patients decision making [7] and there are some indications that even patients needing immediate critical care, such as those affected by stroke, may be exposed to potentially life-threatening information [8].…”

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General Characteristics and Quality of Stroke-Related Online Information – A Cross-Sectional Assessment of the Romanian and Hungarian Websites

Popescu¹,

Popescu

Dănilă³

et al. 2018

Acta Medica Marisiensis

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Background: The quality of online health-related information may affect users’ understanding and medical decision-making with dramatic impact, particularly in case of stroke. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the quality of information about stroke on the Romanian and Hungarian websites in terms of completeness and accuracy. Methods: The research was designed as an observational cross-sectional study. The sample included 25 Romanian and 25 Hungarian websites presenting information about stroke for the general public. General characteristics such as website ownership, main goal, website genre and medical approach were identified by the evaluators using a predetermined set of common instructions. The completeness and accuracy of the information were assessed by two independent assessors against a quality benchmark. Results: Overall, most of the websites were owned by private commercial companies (42%), had educational goal (66%), were designed as medical web-portals (46%) and had a conventional medicine approach (72%). Mean completeness score was 5.6 points (SD± 1.9) for Romanian sites and 4.1 points (SD ± 2.4) for Hungarian sites (p = 0.017). Mean accuracy score was 6.2 points (SD ± 1.1) for Romanian sites and 7.0 points (SD ± 0.7) for Hungarian sites (p = 0.02). Conclusions: The information about stroke on the Romanian and Hungarian websites had poor quality. Although we found statistically significant differences between the quality scores of the two language sub-samples and two site characteristics associated with significantly higher quality, the practical relevance of these findings for online health information seekers should be interpreted with caution.

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“…Furthermore, only 60% of the websites have specified that stroke is a medical emergency and only 74% of them urged users to call the emergency service without delay. It is also worth mentioning that despite the recognition of medical hoaxes, rumors and frauds [13], only 22% of the websites warned users not to rely on diagnostic or treatment methods that are not scientifically validated.…”

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Online Information about Stroke – A Soft Challenge for Critical Care Professionals

Popescu¹,

Dănilă²,

Nădășan

2018

The Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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Should Critical Care Professionals Take Hoaxes/Rumours Seriously?

Cited by 5 publications

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Rumor, misinformation among web: A contemporary review of rumor detection techniques during different web waves

Rumor, misinformation among web: A contemporary review of rumor detection techniques during different web waves

General Characteristics and Quality of Stroke-Related Online Information – A Cross-Sectional Assessment of the Romanian and Hungarian Websites

Online Information about Stroke – A Soft Challenge for Critical Care Professionals

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