Hashtags in scientific work
May 7th 2017Sergey MinaevClinical pharmacology & Experimental medicine & For scientists & Oncology
In the paper “Disease-Specific Hashtags for Online Communication About Cancer Care” by Matthew S. Katz et al. from JAMA Oncol. analyzed the effectiveness of Hashtags in medical work.
Hashtags are user-generated tags that can organize and aggregate content on social networks. In July 2011, 2 patient advocates started a breast cancer chat on Twitter using the tag #bcsm (breast cancer social media); one of us (D.J.A.) joined as a comoderator. This same model but with hashtag #btsm was used to discuss brain tumors in January 2012. Both tags are now regularly used on Twitter by patients, caregivers, and HCPs.
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