Are Health-Related Tweets Evidence Based? Review and Analysis of Health-Related Tweets on Twitter.

Khalid A Alnemer Waleed M Alhuzaim Ahmed A Alnemer Bader B Alharbi Abdulrahman S Bawazir Omar R Barayyan Faisal Khalid Balaraj

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2015)

Approximately half of the medical tweets from professional accounts on Twitter were found to be false based on expert review. Furthermore, most of the evidence-based health-related tweets are posted by government institutes and physicians.

Keyphrases

social media
primary care
healthcare
clinical practice