Content Analysis of Emoji and Emoticon Use in Clinical Texting Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Emoji and emoticons are quickly becoming an omnipresent feature of virtual communication. As health care systems increasingly adopt clinical texting applications, it is critical to understand how clinicians use these ideograms with colleagues and how it may affect their interactions.

Objective

To evaluate the functions that emoji and emoticons serve in clinical text messages.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study's content analysis of clinical text messages from a secure clinical messaging platform was conducted to assess the communicative function of emoji and emoticons. The analysis included messages sent by hospitalists to other health care clinicians. A subset of a random 1% sample of all message threads, which included at least 1 emo

SUBMITTER: Halverson CME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10265294 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature