The Dramatic Increase in Social Media in Urology

Matta, Rano; Doiron, Chris; Leveridge, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.juro.2014.02.043

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“…2 SoMe offers healthcare professionals novel avenues to teach, learn, and care. [3][4][5][6][7] Within urology, SoMe is used to conduct an international e-journal club, 8 facilitate open-access discussions at conferences, 9,10 disseminate information from prominent journals and societies, 11 identify areas for improvement in educational resource distribution to patients, [12][13][14] rapidly and accurately assess robotic surgical suturing performance, 15 network professionally, 16 and improve response rates to surveys. 16 Due to the bourgeoning connection between SoMe and urology, a standardized nomenclature to discuss urologic topics online has been created.…”

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A new wave of urologists? Graduating urology residents’ practices of and attitudes toward social media

Jain

Fuoco

Fervaha

et al. 2018

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Introduction: Social media (SoMe) have revolutionized healthcare, but physicians remain hesitant to adopt SoMe in their practices. We sought to assess graduating urology residents' practices of and attitudes toward SoMe.Methods: A close-ended questionnaire, employing five-point Likert scales, was distributed to all final-year residents (n=100) in Canadian urology training programs in 2012, 2014, and 2016 to assess SoMe usage and perceived usefulness. Results: All (100%) questionnaires were completed. Respondents frequently used online services for personal (100%) and professional (96%) purposes. Most (92%) used SoMe. Many (73%) frequently used SoMe for personal purposes, but few (12%) frequently used SoMe for professional purposes. While a majority (59%) opposed direct patient interaction online, most supported using SoMe to provide patients with static information (76%) and collaborate with colleagues (65%). Many (70-73%) were optimistic that novel solutions to privacy issues in online communications will arise, making SoMe and email contact with patients conceivable. Few (2-8%) were aware and had read guidelines and legislations regarding physician online practices; however, awareness of medical associations' and institutional SoMe policies significantly increased over time (p<0.05). Conclusions: Despite their active online use, graduating urology residents rarely used SoMe in professional settings and were wary of using it in patient care. Nevertheless, they were optimistic toward its integration in urology and supported its use in physician-physician communication. Considering SoMe's increased influence on urology and graduating residents' limited awareness of guidelines and legislations, postgraduate medical educators should encourage residents to become more familiar with current online communication recommendations.

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A new wave of urologists? Graduating urology residents’ practices of and attitudes toward social media

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Fervaha

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“…[1][2][3][4] One of the major uses is advocacy and policy discussion. For example, following the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation, there was a robust Twitter reaction (5357 tweets).…”

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“…Over the last three years, Twitter has evolved as an important communication platform at conferences with steadily growing participation, 3 which led to the recent record of 12 857 tweets during the 2015 American Urological Association (AUA) conference. 6 Numerous studies have reported increasing use of Twitter at urologic conferences 3,4,[7][8][9] and urologists were the main contributors to the Twitter discussions. 4,7 A recent content analysis from a global endourology conference showed that 57% of tweets were related to the scientific content of the meeting.…”

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Qualitative Twitter analysis of participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content at a major urologic conference

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Merseburger

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Introduction: The microblogging social media platform Twitter is increasingly being adopted in the urologic field. We aimed to analyze participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content of the Twitter discussion at a urologic conference. Methods: A comprehensive analysis of the Twitter activity at the European Association of Urology Congress 2013 (#eau2013) was performed, including characteristics of user profiles, engagement and popularity measurements, characteristics and timing of tweets, and content analysis. Results: Of 218 Twitter contributors, doctors (45%) were the most frequent, ahead of associations (15%), companies (10%), and journals (3%). However, journals had the highest tweet/participant rate (22 tweets/participant), profile activity (median: 1177, total tweets, 1805 followers, 979 following), and profile popularity (follower/following ratio: 2.1; retweet rank percentile: 96%). Links in a profile were associated with higher engagement (p<0.0001) and popularity (p<0.0001). Of 1572 tweets, 57% were original tweets, 71% contained mentions, 20% contained links, and 25% included pictures. The majority of tweets (88%) were during conference hours, with an average of 24.7 tweets/hour and a peak activity of 71 tweets/hour. Overall, 59% of tweets were informative, led by the topics uro-oncology (21%), urologic research (21%), and urotechnology (12%). Limitations include the analysis of a single conference analysis, assessment of global profile and not domainspecific activity, and the rapid evolution in Twitter-using habits. Conclusion: Results of this single conference qualitative analysis are promising for an enrichment of the scientific discussions at urologic conferences through the use of Twitter.

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“…Cirugía (17,18) ; Radiología (19) ; Promoción de la salud (20) ; Farmacología (21) o Urología (22,23) , por mencionar algunos ámbitos sanitarios.…”

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El uso de Twitter en los XVII y XVIII Encuentros Internacionales de Investigación en Cuidados

Ovalle-Perandones

Navas-Martín

2015

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The aim of this paper is to propose a roadmap to analyze the use of the Twitter social network during the days when a conference is held. The main reason is the lack of practice to perform this task in the Spanish context, against the habit of doing at international conferences, with special emphasis in Health Sciences. With the Opileak technology, all messages were monitored on the social network Twitter during four days of the International Nursing Research Conferences, organized by Carlos III Healthcare Institute's, Nursing and Healthcare Research Unit (Investén-ISCIII). The process was made when the conferences were closed in the years 2013 and 2014, both had their own hashtags: #inves13 and # inves14. The results show that users tend to retweet more over time than original tweets; the main days of the conference have also the highest activity on the social network; users take different roles, being Enfermería Global Nº 40 Octubre 2015Página 144 some good informers or well-informed users; the words used are a tribute to the cities where the conferences are held, the theme of the conferences and their international character. This type of analysis should perform by the organization of any meeting to discover the event impact on a communication channel 2.0 INTRODUCCIÓNDesde que en 2006 se creó el servicio de microblogging Twitter, más popular tras la conferencia South by SouthWerst (SWSX) en 2007, los procesos de comunicación de la vida habitual han visto modificada su dinámica (1) . Su principal característica es el límite de caracteres, hasta 140, con los que los usuarios pueden describir brevemente su estado y automáticamente éste se difunde a aquellos usuarios a los que están conectados, accediendo a la red desde cualquier dispositivo conectado a Internet.Esos procesos, que forman parte de la conocida como comunicación 2.0 (2) , también han tenido su impacto en los numerosos encuentros científicos que periódicamente se celebran entre profesionales de un sector profesional. En todas las especialidades son importantes, si bien las relaciones entre los profesionales sanitarios tienen múltiples beneficios para el buen funcionamiento de las organizaciones (3) y como efecto secundario, de las personas que forman parte de ellas y de los pacientes.En la fase en la que no existían redes sociales, a la que se puede denominar como de pre-redes sociales, cuando se organizaba un congreso se le daba la mayor difusión posible entre los potenciales asistentes: profesionales, estudiantes, docentes, investigadores, por mencionar algunos. En ese momento la difusión se realizaba fundamentalmente con un díptico, tríptico o cartel en soporte papel. A finales del siglo pasado comenzaron a irrumpir otras posibilidades como Internet o el correo electrónico, y con ellas los organizadores tuvieron la capacidad de identificar la oportunidad que esos, entonces "nuevos", canales ofrecían. Durante ese periodo la única manera de conseguir los materiales presentados y acceder a los contenidos, era asistiendo y/o consiguiendo la...

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The Dramatic Increase in Social Media in Urology

Cited by 112 publications

References 5 publications

A new wave of urologists? Graduating urology residents’ practices of and attitudes toward social media

A new wave of urologists? Graduating urology residents’ practices of and attitudes toward social media

Qualitative Twitter analysis of participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content at a major urologic conference

El uso de Twitter en los XVII y XVIII Encuentros Internacionales de Investigación en Cuidados

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