Evaluating Patient Perspectives of Provider Professionalism on Twitter in an Academic Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic: Patient Survey.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:One-third of Americans use social media websites as a source of health care information. Twitter, a microblogging site that allows users to place 280-character posts-or tweets-on the Web, is emerging as an important social media platform for health care. However, most guidelines on medical professionalism on social media are based on expert opinion. OBJECTIVE:This study sought to examine if provider Twitter profiles with educational tweets were viewed as more professional than profiles with personal tweets or a mixture of the two, and to determine the impact of provider gender on perceptions of professionalism in an academic obstetrics and gynecology clinic. METHODS:This study randomized obstetrics and gynecology patients at the University of Michigan Von Voigtlander Clinic to v

SUBMITTER: Maben-Feaster RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5869178 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature