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A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication


Social media is changing the nature and speed of health care interaction between individuals and health organizations. The general public, patients, and health professionals are using social media to communicate about health issues.

In the United States, 61% of adults search online and 39% use social media such as Facebook for health information. Social media adoption rates vary in Europe; for example, the percentage of German hospitals using social networks is in “single figures”, whereas approximately 45% of Norwegian and Swedish hospitals are using LinkedIn, and 22% of Norwegian hospitals use Facebook for health communication.

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 A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication

Social media is changing the nature and speed of health care interaction between individuals and health organizations. The general public, patients, and health professionals are using social media to communicate about health issues.

Experiment

Microryza is an online crowdfunding platform for research, where donors learn and share discoveries through updates in real-time. It's simple: Microryza gives donors the ability to discover a great research idea, support it with a contribution, and learn by connecting directly with the researcher.

OpenMD

Search billions of documents from medical organizations, journals, and databases.

The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists

Science is in big trouble. Or so we’re told. In the past several years, many scientists have become afflicted with a serious case of doubt — doubt in the very institution of science.

theNNT

We are a group of physicians that have developed a framework and rating system to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms as well as a system to evaluate diagnostics by patient sign, symptom, lab test or study. We only use the highest quality, evidence-based studies (frequently, but not always Cochrane Reviews), and we accept no outside funding or advertisements.

BestBETs

BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.

BioMed Central

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

BMJ Research

Latest research.

CenterWatch

At CenterWatch, our mission is to be the leading source of clinical trials information for both clinical research professionals and patients. To support our mission, we offer several professional, educational and informative services and resources from news and analysis on the industry to trial listings seeking study volunteers. For more information, click on the links below under the appropriate category.

ClinicalResearch.com

Quintiles created ClinicalResearch.com to increase clinical research awareness, understanding and participation. Here you can find clinical research studies recruiting in your area and learn about advances in medical areas of interest to you.

ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

CTR

Clinical Trial Results Educational Lecture Series - Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Annual Meeting. This CME program covers late breaking clinical trials, hot topics in cardiology, and unique disease management discussions.

Horizon

The EU research and innovation magazine.

JournalWATCH

To help physicians and allied health professionals save time and stay informed by providing brief, clearly written, clinically focused perspectives on the medical developments that affect practice.

MedBio World

MedBioWorld is a premier online resource portal for professional medical and biotechnology information.

New Under the Sun Blog

The main goal of this blog is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research by specialists and the public. As a scientist, my ideals compel me to share these novel insights in a way such that they are understandable and valuable to a general audience. Here you will be able to find information about what is new under the sun. Primarily, the content will focus on all things green: from pond scum to plants, energy, agriculture, conservation and sustainability. However, current events and other special interests may skew the content elsewhere.

Cochrane

Improving healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions, published in The Cochrane Library.

Genamics

Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the Internet. The database presently contains 93424 titles. Journal information includes the description, journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.

MITLibraries

The mission of the MIT libraries is to create and sustain an intuitive, trusted information environment that enables learning and the advancement of knowledge at MIT.

National Library of Medicine

The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.

NIH

The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.

PubMed

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

ScienceDaily

Latest Health and Medicine News.

The University of Iowa Libraries

Find articles in scholarly journals and magazines with these databases and indexes.

UpToDate

UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to clinicians on the Web, desktop, and PDA. UpToDate is designed to get clinicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point-of-care.

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