Introducing the global medical community to the information presented at local scientific conferences through nephrology blogs.

ABSTRACT: An increasing number of healthcare providers author medical blogs (bloggers) to educate the public and fellow physicians. Traditionally, many bloggers have assumed that readers are most interested in information presented at prestigious and popular scientific meetings. As a result, the readers and bloggers often ignore blogs of local scientific meetings. We hypothesize that blog readers will utilize blogs about local scientific meetings less than those about national meetings. We examined nephrology-pertinent blogs from 2010-2012. Blogs were categorized as "local/regional" or "national/international" based on the majority of the audience that attended the live scientific meeting. We tracked the number of pageviews, reading time, and location of use per blog for the first 90-days after its

SUBMITTER: Desai T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3894799 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature