Trial reportBMJ open2016
Tweeting links to Cochrane Schizophrenia Group reviews: a randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMJ open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Examining the Effectiveness of Social Media for the Dissemination of Research Evidence for Health and Social Care Practitioners: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Adding evidence of the effects of treatments into relevant Wikipedia pages: a randomised trial.BMJ open · 2020Trial
- Day of the week to tweet: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2019Trial
- To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question: A randomized trial of Twitter effects in medical education.PloS one · 2019Trial
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- Protocol for surgical and non-surgical treatment for metacarpal shaft fractures in adults: an observational feasibility study.BMJ open · 2021Article
- If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citations.International journal of public health · 2020Observational
- Who should you be following? The top 100 social media influencers in orthopaedic surgery.World journal of orthopedics · 2019Article
- Social Media for the Dissemination of Cochrane Child Health Evidence: Evaluation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Article
- RevManHAL: towards automatic text generation in systematic reviews.Systematic reviews · 2017Article
- Twittering on about mental health: is it worth the effort?Evidence-based mental health · 2017Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the effects of using health social media on web activity.
designIndividually randomised controlled parallel group superiority trial.
settingTwitter and Weibo.
participants170 Cochrane Schizophrenia Group full reviews with an abstract and plain language summary web page.
interventionsThree randomly ordered slightly different 140 character or less messages, each containing a short URL to the freely accessible summary page sent on specific times on one single day. This was compared with no messaging. OUTCOME: The primary outcome was web page visits at 1 week. Secondary outcomes were other metrics of web activity at 1 week.
results85 reviews were randomised to each of the intervention and control arms. Google Analytics allowed 100% follow-up within 1 week of completion. Intervention and control reviews received a total of 1162 and 449 visits, respectively (IRR 2.7, 95% CI 2.2 to 3.3). Fewer intervention reviews had single page only visits (16% vs 31%, OR 0.41, 0.19 to 0.88) and users spent more time viewing intervention reviews (geometric mean 76 vs 31 s, ratio 2.5, 1.3 to 4.6). Other secondary metrics of web activity all showed strong evidence in favour of the intervention.
conclusionsTweeting in this limited area of healthcare increases 'product placement' of evidence with the potential for that to influence care. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN84658943.
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