What are health-related users tweeting? A qualitative content analysis of health-related users and their messages on twitter.

Joy L Lee Matthew DeCamp Mark Dredze Margaret Smith Chisolm Zackary D Berger

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2014)

Twitter users in health-related fields tweet about both testable claims and personal experiences. Future work should assess the relationship between testable tweets and the actual level of evidence supporting them, including how Twitter users-especially patients-interpret the content of tweets posted by health providers.

Keyphrases

social media
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current status
patient reported outcomes