Enhancing engagement beyond the conference walls: analysis of Twitter use at #ICPIC2019 infection prevention and control conference

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作者：
Martischang, Romain [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Tartari, Ermira [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ]
Kilpatrick, Claire [6 ]
Mackenzie, Graham [7 ]
Carter, Vanessa [8 ,9 ]
Castro-Sanchez, Enrique [10 ,11 ]
Marquez-Villarreal, Hilda [12 ]
Otter, Jonathan A. [10 ,11 ]
Perencevich, Eli [13 ]
Silber, Denise [14 ]
Storr, Julie [6 ]
Tetro, Jason
Voss, Andreas [15 ,16 ,17 ]
Pittet, Didier [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Geneva Hosp, Infect Control Programme, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[2] Univ Geneva Hosp, WHO Collaborating Ctr Patient Safety, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[3] Fac Med, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret Gentil, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[4] Univ Geneva, Inst Global Hlth, Fac Med, Geneva, Switzerland
[5] Univ Malta, Fac Hlth Sci, Msida, Malta
[6] S3 Global, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
[7] NHS Educ Scotland, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[8] Healthcare Commun, Social Media, Cape Town, South Africa
[9] Stanford Univ, Med X ePatient Scholar Program, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[10] Imperial Coll London, NIHR Hlth Protect Res Unit HPRU HCAIs & AMR, London, England
[11] Imperial Coll Healthcare NHS Trust, Infect Prevent & Control, London, England
[12] Univ Guadalajara, Dept Publ Hlth, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
[13] Univ Iowa, Dept Internal Med, Ctr Access & Delivery Res & Evaluat CADRE, Iowa City Vet Affairs Hlth Care Syst,Carver Coll, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[14] Basil Strategies, Paris, France
[15] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Med Ctr, Dept Med Microbiol, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[16] Canisius Wilhelmina Hosp, Dept Clin Microbiol & Infect Dis, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[17] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Med Ctr, REshape Ctr Innovat, Nijmegen, Netherlands
来源：
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND INFECTION CONTROL | 2021年 / 10卷 / 01期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
Social media; Social networking; Science communication; Medtweeter; Tweeter; Twitter; Infection prevention and control; Public; Patient; Patient participation; Medical conference;
D O I：
10.1186/s13756-021-00891-1
中图分类号：
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号：
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
Background Social media may provide a tool, when coupled with a patient-included (TM) conference, to enhance the engagement among the general public. We describe authors and potential readers of Twitter content surrounding a patient-included (TM) scientific congress, the International Consortium for Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) 2019. Methods Retrospective observational analysis of Twitter users posting with the #ICPIC2019 hashtag during the conference. Tweet authors, overall followers, and active followers were categorized according to their Twitter biographies using unsupervised learning. Diversity of professional backgrounds of Tweet authors and their followers was explored. Network analysis explored connectedness between the reach of authors. Results In total, 1264 participants attended ICPIC 2019, of which 28 were patients. From September 7 to 16, 2019, we were able to categorize 235 ' 620 (41%) followers linked to 474 (76%) authors. Among authors and followers, respectively 34% and 14% were healthcare workers, 11% and 15% were from industry representatives, 8% and 7% were academic researchers. On average, 23% (range 9-39%) followers belonged to the same categories as authors. Among all followers categorized, only 582/235 620 (0.25%) interacted with original messages, including healthcare workers (37%), global and public health (12%), academic research (11%) and those from industry (11%). Though the similarity between Tweet authors and followers was supported by network analysis, we also observed that non-healthcare workers (including patients) appeared to have more diverse followers. Conclusions We observed the participation of numerous Tweet authors and followers from diverse professional backgrounds potentially supporting the benefit of including patients in conferences to reach a more general, non-specialized public.
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