Integrating Social Media and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery: An Analysis of Patient, Surgeon, and Hospital Use

Ramkumar, Prem N.; La, Ton; Fisch, Evan; Fabricant, Peter D.; White, Alexander E.; Jones, Kristofer J.; Taylor, Samuel A.

doi:10.1016/j.arthro.2016.08.021

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“…While most of the posts were found to be shared in a positive light suggesting the care we deliver is meeting expectations, the analysis also encourages surgeons to pay additional cosmetic attention to dressing changes and frame expectations in the context of functional milestones that relate to RTP and ADLs. A previous study highlighting the nature of Instagram posts regarding ACL surgery similarly revealed the tendency of these patients to focus on the appearance of their surgical site, return to play, and post-operative rehabilita-tion with an overwhelmingly positive tone [17]. The results of our study validate these findings on both Twitter and Instagram in S&E surgery but add an additional layer of insight.…”

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“…RTP was defined as the patient returning to any sport, regardless of level or performance. References to satisfaction and dissatisfaction were catalogued using the following inclusion criteria: (1) explicit reference to the joint, (2) explicit reference to patient performance of ADLs and (3) explicitly positive (satisfaction) or negative (dissatisfaction) tone [17]. Statistical differences between patients undergoing reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) and total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) were assessed in terms of tone, timing, content, and references using Student's t test.…”

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“…Other areas of medicine, from neurology to gastroenterology to dermatology, have harnessed the power of the hashtag and explored patient utilization on Instagram [3,4,8,11]. In orthopaedic surgery, however, only social media content from anterior cruciate ligament surgery patients has been described [17]. In shoulder and elbow (S&E) surgery, knowledge of what patients deem worth sharing to their personal networks may serve as a unique patient-reported outcome for these high demand procedures.…”

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Social Media in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery: An Analysis of Twitter and Instagram

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Social media provide a unique method of analyzing outcomes and quality in medicine. The purpose of this observational study was to investigate the nature of social media content related to shoulder and elbow (S&E) surgery posted by patients, surgeons, and hospitals. A public search of Instagram for a two-year period yielded 1,177 patient-related posts. A categorical system assessed the perspective, timing, tone, and content of each post. Twitter accounts of 77 S&E specialists from the top five ranked U.S. News & World Report institutions were analyzed for activity and content. 5,246 Twitter and Instagram posts for the institutions were analyzed for frequency and content. Most patient-related posts were by patients (68%), postoperative (82%), positive (87%), and centered on return-to-play for Tommy John (34%), surgical site for shoulder arthroplasty (52%), and activities of daily living for rotator cuff repair (22%). 37% of surgeons had active accounts averaging 46 posts, 87% of which were practice advertisements. Hospitals averaged 273 posts over the 2-year period, focusing on education (38%) and community (18%). S&E patients share outcomes on social media in a positive tone with procedure-dependent emphases. Surgeons on social media use sites for practice augmentation. Hospitals often focused posts towards educating the community.

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Social Media in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery: An Analysis of Twitter and Instagram

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“…Previous studies have explored the correlation between social media activity and orthopaedic articles’ citation counts[3], as well as examined how patients share information about their orthopaedic injuries online[5-7]. However, to date, the individuals with the largest social media influence within the orthopaedic community have not been established.…”

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Who should you be following? The top 100 social media influencers in orthopaedic surgery

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Kernkamp

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BACKGROUNDSocial media has been credited with the potential to transform medicine, and Twitter was recently named “an essential tool” for the academic surgeon. Despite this, peer-to-peer and educational influence on social media has not been studied within orthopaedic surgery. This knowledge is important to identify who is controlling the conversation about orthopaedics to the public. We hypothesized that the plurality of top influencers would be sports medicine surgeons, that social media influence would not be disconnected from academic productivity, and that some of the top social media influencers in orthopaedic surgery would not be orthopaedic surgeons.AIMTo identify the top 100 social media influencers within orthopaedics, characterize who they are, and relate their social media influence to academic influence.METHODSTwitter influence scores for the topic “orthopaedics” were collected in July 2018 using Right Relevance software. The accounts with the top influence scores were linked to individual names, and the account owners were characterized with respect to specialty, subspecialty, practice setting, location, board certification, and academic Hirsch index (h-index).RESULTSSeventy-eight percent of top influencers were orthopaedic surgeons. The most common locations included California (13%), Florida (8%), New York (7%), United Kingdom (7%), Colorado (6%), and Minnesota (6%). The mean academic h-index of the top influencers (n = 79) was 13.67 ± 4.12 (mean ± 95%CI) and median 7 (range 1-89) (median reported h-index of academic orthopaedic faculty is 5 and orthopaedic chairpersons is 13). Of the 78 orthopaedic surgeons, the most common subspecialties were sports medicine (54%), hand and upper extremity (18%), and spine (8%). Most influencers worked in private practice (53%), followed by academics (17%), privademics (14%), and hospital-based (9%). All eligible orthopaedic surgeons with publicly-verifiable board certification statuses were board-certified (n = 74).CONCLUSIONThe top orthopaedic social media influencers on Twitter were predominantly board-certified, sports-medicine subspecialists working in private practice in the United States. Social media influence was highly concordant with academic productivity as measured by the academic h-index. Though the majority of influencers are orthopaedic surgeons, 22% of top influencers on Twitter are not, which is important to identify given the potential for these individuals to influence patients’ perceptions and expectations. This study also provides the top influencer network for other orthopaedic surgeons to engage with on social media to improve their own social media influence.

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“…This app is being used in many clinical disciplines, particularly those that engage heavily in visual content such as radiology, dermatology, and plastic and reconstructive surgery. Hospitals and a number of government and medical societies are well represented on Instagram but physicians much less so [14]. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) use Instagram to educate, to raise public awareness to important health issues, and for health alerts.…”

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Digital communications and social media use in surgery: how to maximize communication in the digital age

Karpeh

Bryczkowski

2017

Innovative Surgical Sciences

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Digital communications and social media use in surgery: how to maximize communication in the digital age DOI 10.1515/iss-2017-0019 Received March 22, 2017 accepted April 3, 2017; previously published online July 29, 2017 Abstract: Communication among patients, colleagues, and staff in healthcare has changed dramatically in the last decade. Digital technology and social media sites have allowed instantaneous access to information. The potential for information technology to improve access to healthcare, enhance the quality, and lower the cost is significant. Text messaging, tweeting, chatting, and blogging are rapidly replacing e-mail as the preferred means of communication in healthcare. This review will highlight how digital technology is changing the way surgeons communicate with colleagues and patients as well as provide some guidance as to how to avoid some of the pitfalls and problems that this form of communication can bring.

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Integrating Social Media and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery: An Analysis of Patient, Surgeon, and Hospital Use

Cited by 42 publications

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Social Media in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery: An Analysis of Twitter and Instagram

Social Media in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery: An Analysis of Twitter and Instagram

Who should you be following? The top 100 social media influencers in orthopaedic surgery

Digital communications and social media use in surgery: how to maximize communication in the digital age

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