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Novel survey disseminated through Twitter supports its utility for networking, disseminating research, advocacy, clinical practice and other professional goals

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Borgmann, Hendrik, DeWitt, Sasha, Tsaur, Igor, Haferkamp, Axel, Loeb, Stacy·2015·Canadian Urological Association Journal

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INTRODUCTION: Twitter use has grown exponentially within the urological community. We aimed to determine the perceptions of the impact of Twitter on users' clinical practice, research, and other professional activities. METHODS: We performed an 11-item online survey of Twitter contributors during two major urological meetings: the European Association of Urology (EAU) and the American Urological Association (AUA) annual meetings. During the EAU 2014 meeting, we distributed the survey via the meeting official Twitter feed. During the AUA 2014 meeting, we applied a new method by directly sending the survey to Twitter contributors. We performed a subset analysis for assessing the perceived impact of Twitter on the clinical practice of physicians. RESULTS: Among 312 total respondents, the greatest perceived benefits of Twitter among users were for networking (97%) and disseminating information (96%), followed by research (75%), advocacy (74%) and career development (62%). In total, 65% of Twitter users have dealt with guidelines on online medical professionalism and 71% of physician users found that Twitter had an impact on their clinical practice, and 33% had made a clinical decision based on an online case discussion. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that Twitter users in the urological community perceive important benefits. These benefits extend to multiple professional domains, particularly networking, disseminating information, remote conference participation, research, and advocacy. This is the first study that has been disseminated to targeted individuals from the urological community directly through tweets, providing a proof of principle for this research method.

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Authors
Borgmann, H., DeWitt, S., Tsaur, I., Haferkamp, A., & Loeb, S.
Affiliations
  • University Hospital Frankfurt (DE)
  • NYU Langone Health (US)
Venue
Canadian Urological Association Journal
Published
2015-10-13
Volume
9
Issue
9-10
Pages
713
ISSN
  • 1911-6470 (ISSN-L)
  • 1920-1214
OpenAlex
W1946755057
Cited by
61
References
15
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 8
FWCI
10.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Canadian Urological Association Journal (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
Keywords
Twitter, social media in healthcare, urology, professional networking, research dissemination, health care advocacy, clinical practice, clinical decision-making

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