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Urology News and Education Resource
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Tuesday, 24 September 2024 |
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Sharing Clinical Information through Social Media
Todd Morgan, MD and Daniel Spratt, MD
Dan Spratt and Todd Morgan discuss the role of social media in medical and scientific communication with Charles Ryan. All three agree that social media, especially Twitter, helps to provide quicker access to breaking information at congresses when it is not possible to attend the live meeting. This communication outlet also typically provides more expert opinion and commentary that is typically not available in the publication. However, they all point out the concern that this information cannot be over interpreted as it is not peer reviewed information. Overall, they agree that when used correctly, social media provides timely access to breaking data.
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Integrating Social Media as an Effective Teaching Tool for Patients
Stacy Loeb, MD
Stacy Loeb discusses with Alicia Morgans her successful implementation of a Twitter-based prostate cancer journal club for patients that was implemented in 2017, under #prostatejc. They also discuss the necessity to vet the quality of information available to consumers. Stacy refers to a content analysis of YouTube videos related to prostate cancer, published in 2017 in the American Journal of Men’s Health.
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The Role of Social Media and Internet Search Engines in Information Provision and Dissemination to Patients with Kidney Stone Disease: A Systematic Review from EAU Young Academic Urologists – Beyond the Abstract
The use of SoMe is increasing, and not just with younger generations. A study by the Office for National Statistics showed that in 2017, 88% of adults in Great Britain used the internet every week (a 51% increase from 2006). It was also found that an increasing number of adults (78%) use the internet whilst ‘on the go’, via their smartphones. This could be aided, in part, by the explosive increase in smartphone usage, with over 39% of the world’s population possessing a smartphone (a figure which is predicted to rise to 59% as soon as 2022). As SoMe usage increases, so does the influence that it has on the medical decisions of the patients that use it.
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Social Media Presence of United States Academic Urology Residency Programs
Dr. Johnston and colleagues at Duke University presented work that adds insight into the growing interest regarding the utilization of social media in academic medicine. The investigators sought to characterize the usage of Twitter and Facebook among ACGME-accredited urology residency programs in the United States.
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Rapid, Efficient Crowdsourcing on Social Media for the Surgical Management of Stone Disease
Crowdsourcing – the practice of providing services and information to a large population – has been proposed to be an increasing advantage of social media for many medical professionals. The study observed Twitter posts from Urologists containing 22 urinary stone key phrases over a 39-day period. A content analysis was conducted and observed urologists seeking feedback and patients seeking advice regarding the urinary stone disease.
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Women's Experience with Stress Urinary Incontinence: Insights from a Qualitative Social Media Analysis
The author here aimed in this study to capture the complete patient experience of women with SUI by conducting a large-scale digital ethnographic analysis of anonymous online posts. They collected 986 posts from 98 social media sites utilizing keywords with a Java-based natural language processing platform and Treato, a social media data mining service.
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Leveraging Social Media to Advance Cancer Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Mina Sedrak discussed the challenges and opportunities to leverage social media to advanced cancer research. Over the last decade, social media adoption has increased substantially, with 5% of adults in the US having at least one social media site in 2006 to 69% in 2018. Furthermore, health-related social media activities are on the rise, with the use of disease-specific hashtags, such as prostate cancer (#pcsm), kidney cancer (#kcsm), and bladder cancer (#blcsm) for incorporating better streamlining of information.
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