Sharing knowledge on Hepatology in times of change, or, why you should be on Twitter

Álvaro Díaz-González; Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Gandía; Juan Turnes

doi:10.1016/j.gastrohep.2020.08.018

Sharing knowledge on Hepatology in times of change, or, why you should be on Twitter

Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 May;44(5):388-393. doi: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2020.08.018. Epub 2020 Nov 5.

[Article in English, Spanish]

Authors

Álvaro Díaz-González¹, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Gandía², Juan Turnes³

Affiliations

¹ Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Santander, España.
² Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, IRyCIS, Madrid, España.
³ Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Pontevedra, IIS Galicia Sur, Pontevedra, España. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 33309072
DOI: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2020.08.018

Abstract

The ways in which information is shared, regardless of its origin, are constantly undergoing major changes. These shifts affecting how people interact and exchange knowledge have been subject to disruptive changes in recent years, due to the possibilities created by social media. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exponentially accelerated these changes and innovations. In health and biomedical settings, Twitter is a key tool. This document aims to depict and describe the nascent opportunities in the field of knowledge dissemination and research on hepatology.

Keywords: #livertwitter; Communication; Comunicacion; Hepatology; Hepatología; Twitter.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Congresses as Topic
Forecasting
Gastroenterology*
Humans
Information Dissemination / methods*
Pandemics*
Periodicals as Topic
SARS-CoV-2*
Social Media* / statistics & numerical data
Social Media* / trends
Social Networking
Societies, Medical
Societies, Scientific