Physicians who use social media and other internet-based communication technologies
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The demographic and practice-related characteristics of physicians who use social networking websites, portable devices to access the internet, email to communicate with patients, podcasts, widgets, RSS feeds, and blogging were investigated. Logistic regression was used to analyze a survey of US primary care physicians, pediatricians, obstetrician/gynecologists, and dermatologists (N=1750). Reported technology use during the last 6 months ranged from 80.6% using a portable device to access the internet to 12.9% writing a blog. The most consistent predictors of use were being male, being younger, and having teaching hospital privileges. Physician specialty, practice setting, years in practice, average number of patients treated per week, and number of physicians in practice were found to be inconsistently associated or unassociated with use of the technologies examined. Demographic characteristics, rather than practice-related characteristics, were more consistent predictors of physician use of seven internet-based communication technologies with varying levels of uptake.
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In the general population, 59% of adult respondents to a CDC survey and 74% of respondents to a Pew survey reported use of social networking sites, with the highest rate among 18- to 29-year-olds.
“This mirrors data from the general population, where 59% of adult respondents to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey [5] and 74% of respondents to a Pew survey [19] reported use of social networking sites, with the highest rate being among 18- to 29-year-olds”
From Pediatric Residents’ Perceptions of Potential Professionalism Violations on Social Media: A US National Survey (2017) · cites this paper as [5]
The cited paper reports 59.1% social-networking use among surveyed physicians, not adults in the general population (Descriptive analysis; page unavailable). Its Table 1 instead reports 49% for US adults (Discussion; page unavailable). The citation is attached to the 59% CDC-survey figure, not the separate Pew figure. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Cooper, C. P., Gelb, C. A., Rim, S. H., Hawkins, N. A., Rodriguez, J. L., & Polonec, L.
- Affiliations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gelb, Cynthia A
- ORCID
- Rim, Sun Hee
- Venue
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-11
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 960-964
- ISSN
- 1067-5027 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-974X
- PMC
- PMC3534450
- OpenAlex
- W2123954972
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 6.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Keywords
- physician social media use, social networking websites, podcasts, portable devices, RSS feeds, physician demographics, primary care physicians, pediatricians, obstetricians and gynecologists, dermatologists
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Primary Health Care, United States, Multivariate Analysis, Logistic Models, Health Care Surveys, Internet, Computers, Handheld, Blogging, Social Media
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