Social media in the era of COVID-19

Aggarwal, Niti R.; Alasnag, Mirvat; Mamas, Mamas A.

doi:10.1136/openhrt-2020-001352

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“…Perhaps the founders of Twitter did not expect it to become a helpful tool in the fight against COVID-19. For example, using Twitter, a cardiologist was able to expedite the delivery of a drug to a COVID-19 patient within just 6 hours of his tweet [171]. The American Heart Association launched a registry on Twitter to aggregate COVID-19 cases to better understand risk factor profiles and treatment algorithms [171].…”

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“…For example, using Twitter, a cardiologist was able to expedite the delivery of a drug to a COVID-19 patient within just 6 hours of his tweet [171]. The American Heart Association launched a registry on Twitter to aggregate COVID-19 cases to better understand risk factor profiles and treatment algorithms [171]. Hashtags such as #GetUsPPE highlighted the scarcity of PPE, resulting in technology pioneers ramping up their production of PPE [171].…”

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“…The American Heart Association launched a registry on Twitter to aggregate COVID-19 cases to better understand risk factor profiles and treatment algorithms [171]. Hashtags such as #GetUsPPE highlighted the scarcity of PPE, resulting in technology pioneers ramping up their production of PPE [171]. After calls were raised on Twitter and other SM platforms, HCPs flew to other parts of their countries that were in crisis, retired clinicians volunteered to rejoin the work force in several countries, and those who were unable to be present helped colleagues through telemedicine.…”

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Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Farsi¹

2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background As the world continues to advance technologically, social media (SM) is becoming an essential part of billions of people’s lives worldwide and is affecting almost every industry imaginable. As the world is becoming more digitally oriented, the health care industry is increasingly visualizing SM as an important channel for health care promotion, employment, recruiting new patients, marketing for health care providers (HCPs), building a better brand name, etc. HCPs are bound to ethical principles toward their colleagues, patients, and the public in the digital world as much as in the real world. Objective This review aims to shed light on SM use worldwide and to discuss how it has been used as an essential tool in the health care industry from the perspective of HCPs. Methods A literature review was conducted between March and April 2020 using MEDLINE, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science for all English-language medical studies that were published since 2007 and discussed SM use in any form for health care. Studies that were not in English, whose full text was not accessible, or that investigated patients’ perspectives were excluded from this part, as were reviews pertaining to ethical and legal considerations in SM use. Results The initial search yielded 83 studies. More studies were included from article references, and a total of 158 studies were reviewed. SM uses were best categorized as health promotion, career development or practice promotion, recruitment, professional networking or destressing, medical education, telemedicine, scientific research, influencing health behavior, and public health care issues. Conclusions Multidimensional health care, including the pairing of health care with SM and other forms of communication, has been shown to be very successful. Striking the right balance between digital and traditional health care is important.

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Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

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2021

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“…In this review, we present examples of these roles of SoMe, highlighting studies leveraging SoMe during the initial shut down due to the peak of the pandemic, and its interplay in cardio-oncology. This study highlights quantitative and qualitative data supporting the efficacy of using Twitter for educational and advocacy campaigns in cardio-oncology, as well as the ability to rapidly disseminate medical information to a large, widespread audience [16,17].…”

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The Role and Impact of Social Media in Cardio-oncology During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Purpose of Review To give an overview of the role of social media (SoMe) in cardio-oncology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent Findings SoMe has been critical in fostering education, outreach, awareness, collaboration, dissemination of information, and advocacy in cardio-oncology. This has become increasingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which SoMe has helped share best practices, community, and research focused on the impact of COVID-19 in cardiology and hematology/ oncology, with cardio-oncology at the interface of these two subspecialty fields. Summary A strength of SoMe is the ability to amplify a message in real-time, globally, with minimal investment of resources. This has been particularly beneficial for the emerging field of cardio-hematology/cardio-oncology, a field focused on the interplay of cancer and cardiovascular disease. SoMe field especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. We illustrate how social media has supported innovation (including telemedicine), amplification of healthcare workers' voice, and illumination of pre-existing and continued health disparities within the field of cardio-oncology during the pandemic.

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“…Studies have thus attempted to utilize this resource to answer targeted questions associated with COVID-19. [20][21][22][23] In this study, we attempted to mine publicly available social media data from Reddit to discover and analyze the spectrum of symptoms self-reported by sufferers of long-COVID. This study builds on our prior work on the topic, which focused on extracting self-reported COVID-19 symptoms from Twitter.…”

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Long COVID symptoms from Reddit: Characterizing post-COVID syndrome from patient reports

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2021

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Objective To mine Reddit to discover long-COVID symptoms self-reported by users, compare symptom distributions across studies, and create a symptom lexicon. Materials and Methods We retrieved posts from the /r/covidlonghaulers subreddit and extracted symptoms via approximate matching using an expanded meta-lexicon. We mapped the extracted symptoms to standard concept IDs, compared their distributions with those reported in recent literature and analyzed their distributions over time. Results From 42,995 posts by 4249 users, we identified 1744 users who expressed at least 1 symptom. The most frequently reported long-COVID symptoms were mental health-related symptoms (55.2%), fatigue (51.2%), general ache/pain (48.4%), brain fog/confusion (32.8%) and dyspnea (28.9%) amongst users reporting at least 1 symptom. Comparison with recent literature revealed a large variance in reported symptoms across studies. Temporal analysis showed several persistent symptoms up to 15 months after infection. Conclusion The spectrum of symptoms identified from Reddit may provide early insights about long-COVID.

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Social media in the era of COVID-19

Cited by 20 publications

References 11 publications

Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

The Role and Impact of Social Media in Cardio-oncology During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Long COVID symptoms from Reddit: Characterizing post-COVID syndrome from patient reports

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