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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lepe, Marcos
• Oltulu, Pembe
• Canepa, Mariana
• Wu, Roseann I
• Deeken, Amy
• Alex, Deepu
• Dinares, Carme
• Doxtader, Erika E
• Fitzhugh, Valerie A
• Gibier, Jean-Baptiste
• Jain, Deepali
• Janaki, Nafiseh
• Jelinek, Alexis
• Labiano, Tania
• L'Imperio, Vincenzo
• Michael, Claire
• Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay
• Pagni, Fabio
• Panizo, Angel
• Pijuan, Lara
• Quintana, Liza M
• Roy-Chowdhuri, Sinchita
• Sanchez-Font, Albert
• Sansano, Irene
• Sauter, Jennifer
• Skipper, Daniel
• Spruill, Laura S
• Torous, Vanda
• Gardner, Jerad Michael
• Jiang, Xiaoyin Sara

Titel

Novel Use of Social Media for Conception, Coordination, and Completion of an International, Multicenter Pathology Study

Ist Teil von

• Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine (1976), 2020-07, Vol.144 (7), p.878-882

Ort / Verlag

Northfield: College of American Pathologists

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2020;144:878–882; doi: 10.5858/ arpa.2019-0297-OA) The utility of social media as an instrument for education, advocacy, and community development in medicine is well documented, and applications of social media in these spheres are expanding exponentially.1 The social media platform Twitter (San Francisco, California) has emerged as one of the most widely used sites for a wide range of physicians, including pathologists,2 because it provides a free, open-access, interactive platform for scientific discussion and sharing of ideas. After obtaining IRB approval from their respective institutions (if required), contributing pathologists retrospectively reviewed 20 consecutive mediastinal lymph node resections following sampling by EBUS-TBNA, and examined them specifically for biopsy site changes. The use of Twitter and other online tools as platforms for facilitating academic collaboration offers several advantages, including public documentation of key research ideas, rapid recruitment of collaborators from geographically disparate locations worldwide, public commentary from clinicians and other pathologists regarding the importance and validity of the project, convenient real-time communication between pathologists in different time zones, and the inclusion of pathologists in nonacademic and in resource-poor academic settings who may not have access to academic scientific collaboration via traditional routes. Twitter's direct messaging function facilitates communication between study authors (Figure 1, A) using a single location for all study communication that can be accessed at each author's convenience, rather than cluttering up personal or work-related email inboxes with several messages daily.