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ReviewSurgery (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2020

How surgeons should behave on social media.

Janet Wc Kung, Stephen J Wigmore

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In one paragraph

Review in Surgery (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Preserving Surgical Professionalism in Social Media; Long Live the Media, But Let Live the Surgeon.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2021
    Article
  3. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Janet Wc Kungis a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK. Conflicts of interest: none declared.
Stephen J Wigmoreis a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK. Conflicts of interest: none declared.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article documents the rise in popularity of social media use by surgeons for personal and professional use. It considers some of the important issues around privacy, patient confidentiality and professionalism and discusses some of the common pitfalls of using social media as a surgeon.

Indexed as

Confidentialitymedical educationprofessionalismresponsibilitiessocial mediasurgeonsurgery

Identifiers

PMID32904552
PMCPMC7456585

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