Cross sectional study of Twitter (X) use among academic anesthesiology departments in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Twitter (recently renamed X) is used by academic anesthesiology departments as a social media platform for various purposes. We hypothesized that Twitter (X) use would be prevalent among academic anesthesiology departments and that the number of tweets would vary by region, physician faculty size, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding rank. We performed a descriptive study of Twitter (X) use by academic anesthesiology departments (i.e. those with a residency program) in 2022. Original tweets were collected using a Twitter (X) analytics tool. Summary statistics were reported for tweet number and content. The median number of tweets was compared after stratifying by region, physician faculty size, and NIH funding rank. Among 166 academic anesthesiology departments, there w

SUBMITTER: Mazzeffi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852312 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature