Using Social Media for Rapid Information Dissemination in a Pandemic: #PedsICU and Coronavirus Disease 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the impact of a strategy for international collaboration and rapid information dissemination on Twitter among the pediatric critical care community during a global pandemic.

Design

Analysis of #PedsICU and coronavirus disease 2019 Twitter data in the Symplur Signals Database between February 1, 2020, and May 1, 2020.

Setting

Social media platform Twitter.

Patients

None.

Interventions

Promotion of the joint usage of #PedsICU and #COVID19 throughout the international pediatric critical care community in tweets relevant to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and pediatric critical care.

Measurements and main results

We collected data on all tweets containing the hashtag #PedsICU in addition to those containing both #PedsICU an

SUBMITTER: Kudchadkar SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7255404 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature