Professional Guidelines for Social Media Use: A Starting Point
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Farnan JM, Snyder Sulmasy L, Worster BK, et al. Online medical professionalism: patient and public relationships: policy statement from the American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(8):620-627.
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Guidelines for social media use are available from numerous professional societies, and a recent review about available guidelines from nine medical international bodies has been published.
“Guidelines are also available from numerous professional societies [171-178], and a recent review about available guidelines from nine medical international bodies has been published [179].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [176]
The ACP-FSMB guidelines on Online Medical Professionalism state that guidelines are a baseline and starting point which needs to be evolved or restructured timely by adopting advanced technologies and emerging with best practices.
“The American College of Physicians-Federations of State Medical Boards (ACP-FSMB) guidelines on Online Medical Professionalism state that guidelines are a baseline and starting point which needs to be evolved or restructured timely by parallelly adopting advanced technologies and eventually emerging with best practices [2].”
From Social Media Role and Its Impact on Public Health: A Narrative Review (2023) · cites this paper as [2]
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Social Media Role and Its Impact on Public Health: A Narrative Review
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“If information or practices turn out to be incomparable, guidelines are created to connect them [2].”
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- Authors
- Kind, T.
- Affiliations
- George Washington University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Terry Kind
- ORCID
- Terry Kind
- Venue
- AMA Journal of Ethics
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2015-05-01
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 441-447
- ISSN
- 1937-7010 (ISSN-L)
- 2376-6980
- OpenAlex
- W251807254
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 6 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 7.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The AMA Journal of Ethic (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, Medicine and Society
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- social media use, medical professionalism, physician-patient relationship, online professional conduct, American College of Physicians, Federation of State Medical Boards
- MeSH terms
- Attitude of Health Personnel, Humans, Physician-Patient Relations, Public Relations, United States, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Professional Misconduct, Blogging, Social Media
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