Emergency Physician Twitter Use in the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Potential Predictor of Impending Surge: Retrospective Observational Study.

Colton Margus Natasha Brown Attila Julius Hertelendy Michelle R Safferman Alexander Hart Gregory R Ciottone

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2021)

COVID-19 Twitter discussion among emergency physicians correlates with and may precede the rising of hospital burden. This study, therefore, begins to depict the extent to which the ongoing pandemic has affected the field of emergency medicine discourse online and suggests a potential avenue for understanding predictors of surge.

Keyphrases

social media
coronavirus disease
emergency department
emergency medicine
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primary care
healthcare
public health
human health
cross sectional
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
acute care
electronic health record