Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
Gewählte Publikation:
Konstantiniuk, A.
SOCIAL MEDIA IN MEDICINE
Comparison of the impact of new media on the dissemination of landmark studies in critical care and sepsis 2001 – 2015
Humanmedizin; [ Diplomarbeit ] Graz Medical University; 2016. pp.
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- Amrein Karin
- Zajic Paul
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- Abstract:
- Background Since 2004, social media have become an increasingly important source of information. This trend now reaches scientists of all disciplines, who use the online media to collect news and to disseminate information and awareness about their work. The social media play a connecting role and provide scientists an interactive way to promote their work and answer questions. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if this is the case in the field of intensive care as well. Methods Quantitative data about twelve important studies was collected. We compared four studies about early-goal directed therapy (EGDT) in sepsis with eight alternative major ICU studies analysing Twitter, Altmetrics, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Web of Science and other traditional publication statistics. Results Sepsis studies had a higher social media representation in comparison to the other ICU studies. The ProCESS study (2014) had the highest Altmetric score of all examined studies. The ARISE study (2014) even has a Twitter Account. Although the original EGDT trial has been published fourteen years ago, it had a very high Altmetric score (original EGDT=176 vs arithmetic mean=80 in all studies). Interestingly, the Altmetric Score neither correlated with Google Citations (r=-0.001, p=0.998) nor publishing date (r=0.022, p=0.945). Conclusion We show that major sepsis studies have a high impact in the social media. The results suggest no significant correlation between publishing date and the impact in the social media. However, these recent developments open up many new possibilities for research and clinical practice.