1. The Social Media Index as an Indicator of Quality for Emergency Medicine Blogs: A METRIQ Study
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Brent Thoma, Teresa M. Chan, Puneet Kapur, Derek Sifford, Marshall Siemens, Michael Paddock, Felix Ankel, Andy Grock, Michelle Lin, Charlotte Alexander, Mohammed Alkhalifah, Abdulaziz S. Almehlisi, Saeed Alqahtani, Scott Anderson, Shelaina Anderson, Colin Andrews, Jocelyn Andruko, Nikytha Antony, Diptesh Aryal, Barbra Backus, Jennifer Baird, Andrew Baker, Sarah Batty, Jared Baylis, Braeden Beaumont, Chris Belcher, Brent Benavides, Michael Benham, Julian Botta, Nicholas Bouchard, Victoria Brazil, Emily Brumfield, Anthony Bryson, Wisarut Bunchit, Kat Butler, Lindy Buzikievich, David Calcara, Rob Carey, Stephen Carroll, Louise Cassidy, Kirsty Challen, Kathryn Chan, Tim Chaplin, Natasha Chatham-Zvelebil, Eric Chen, Lucy Chen, Sushant Chhabra, Alvin Chin, Eric Chochi, Tina Choudhri, Jeremy Christensen, Isabelle Colmers-Gray, Kimberly Connors, Veronica Coppersmith, Abby Cosgrove, Gregory Costello, Kevin Cullison, Andrew D'Alessandro, Kerstin de Wit, Marie Decock, Rayan Delbani, William Denq, Julianna Deutscher, Brendan Devine, Maia Dorsett, Taylor Duda, Justin Dueweke, Teresa Dunphy, Sean Dyer, Karthryn T Eastley, Marcia Edmonds, Ken Edwards, Robert Ehrman, Youness Elkhalidy, Preston Fedor, Brian Ficiur, Caley Flynn, Bill Fraser, Meagan Fu, James Fukakusa, Eric Funk, Damjan Gaco, Viktor Gawlik, Kenn Ghaffarian, Laleh Gharahbaghian, Phil Griffith, Andrew Griffith, Andrew Grock, Tanner Gronowski, Cathy Grossman, Jaroslaw Gucwa, Pawan Gupta, Alexandra Gustafson, Andrew Guy, Mary Haas, Stanislaw Haciski, Emina Hajdinjak, Andrew K. Hall, Regina Hammock, Jan Hansel, Alexander Hart, Larissa Hattin, Brandon Herb, SueLin Hilbert, Jesse Hill, Jeff Hill, Amy Ho, Emily House, Nina House, James Huffman, Charlie Inboriboon, Alex Ireland, Ali Jamal, Mohammad Ali Jamil, Victor Jansen, Zach Jarou, Vivian Jia, Levi Johnston, Drew Kalnow, Seth Kelly, Kyle Kelson, William Kent, Rishi Khakhkhar, Jaasmit Khurana, Ashley Kilp, Scott Knapp, Sebastian Kohler, Ivanna Kruhlak, Nadim Lalani, Samantha Lam, Patrick Lank, Zander Laurie, Kristina Lea, Ernest Leber, Ching-Hsing Lee, Haakon Lenes, Nilantha Lenora, Jesse Leontowicz, Kelly Lien, Yingchun Lin, Andrew Little, Ivy Liu, Harry Liu, Steve Liu, Stephanie Louka, Elise Lovell, David Lowe, Ashley Lubberdink, Jessica Luc, Casey Lyons, Sheng-Hsiang Ma, Hugh MacLeod, Nick Mancuso, Anali Maneshi, Jesse May, John Mayo, Mike McDonnell, Susan McLellan, Carolyn McQuarrie, Julia Nood, Therese Mead, Cory Meeuwisse, Patrick Meloy, Perry Menzies, Anne Messman, Stephen Miazga, Logan Mills, Ken Milne, Allan Mix, Steve Montag, Brendan Moore, Justin Morgenstern, Sarah Mott, P. Mukherj, Ali Mulla, Sheena Nandalal, Taylor Nikel, Sean Nugent, Morgan Oakland, Werner Oberholzer, Onyeka Otugo, Taofiq Segun Oyedokun, Mike Paddock, Alim Pardhan, Kinjal Patel, Quinten Paterson, Catherine Patocka, Christine Patterson, James Pearlman, Elyse Berger Pelletier, Alexis Pelletier-Bui, Marc Phan, Zafrina Poonja, Aubrey Powell, Kamini Premkumar, Gregor Prosen, Vishal Puri, Tanis Quaife, Ryan Raffel, Ali Raja, Randi Ramunno, Louise Rang, Suzanne Rannazzisi, Shauna Regan, Salim R. Rezaie, Milan Ridderikhof, Vanessa Rogers, Christine Roh, Dra. Maria Rosa Carrillo, Keith Rosenberg, Marina Roure, Sherri Rudinsky, Joshua Rudner, Adeeb Saleh, Will Sanderson, Owen Scheirer, Paul Schofield, Paul Schunk, Evan Schwarz, Parisa Shahrabadi, Eric Shappell, Julia Sheffield, Jonathan Sherbino, Manpreet Singh, Hector C Singson, Dave Slessor, Sam Smith, Paula Sneath, Robert Sobehart, Kerry Spearing, James Stempien, Britni Sternard, Tara Stratton, Katherine Stuart, Bob Stuntz, Michael Susalla, Colleen Sweeney, Loice Swisher, Henry Swoboda, Shahbaz Syed, Taku Taira, Nikhil Tambe, Richard Tang, Elisha Targonsky, Rachel Taylor, Alan Taylor, Todd Taylor, Paxton Ting, Gerhard Tiwald, Kelvin Tran, Evelyn Tran, Jason Trickovic, Paul Trinquero, Seth Trueger, Aaron Tyagi, Manrique Umana, Patrick Vallance, Patricia Van den Berg, Luis Vargas, Rene Verbeek, Sandra Viggers, Zlata Vlodaver, Matthew Wagner, Noorin Walji, Joe Walter, Miranda Wan, Rachel Wang, Gregory Wanner, Wyatt Warawa, Mike Ward, Jennifer Weekes, Kristen Weersink, Cara Weessies, Anna Whalen-Browne, Brian Whiteside, Matthew Willis, Jonas Wilmer, Nelson Wong, Mark Woodcroft, Rob Woods, Lawrence Yau, Jessica Yee, Calvin Yeh, Simon York Ming Huang, Katherine Yurkiw, Fareen Zaver, Alexander Zozula, Emergency Department, Graduate School, ACS - Heart failure & arrhythmias, and ACS - Diabetes & metabolism
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Index (economics) ,Blogging ,Cross-sectional study ,media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,MEDLINE ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,Social media ,Quality (business) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,media_common ,Web site ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Critical appraisal ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Emergency medicine ,Emergency Medicine ,Gestalt psychology ,Female ,business ,Social Media - Abstract
Study objective Online educational resources such as blogs are increasingly used for education by emergency medicine clinicians. The Social Media Index was developed to quantify their relative impact. The Medical Education Translational Resources: Indicators of Quality (METRIQ) study was conducted in part to determine the association between the Social Media Index score and quality as measured by gestalt and previously derived quality instruments. Methods Ten blogs were randomly selected from a list of emergency medicine and critical care Web sites. The 2 most recent clinically oriented blog posts published on these blogs were evaluated with gestalt, the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine Approved Instructional Resources (ALiEM AIR) score, and the METRIQ-8 score. Volunteer raters (including medical students, emergency medicine residents, and emergency medicine attending physicians) were identified with a multimodal recruitment methodology. The Social Media Index was calculated in February 2016, November 2016, April 2017, and December 2017. Pearson's correlations were calculated between the Social Media Index and the average rater gestalt, ALiEM AIR score, and METRIQ-8 score. Results A total of 309 of 330 raters completed all ratings (93.6%). The Social Media Index correlated moderately to strongly with the mean rater gestalt ratings (range 0.69 to 0.76) and moderately with the mean rater ALiEM AIR score (range 0.55 to 0.61) and METRIQ-8 score (range 0.53 to 0.57) during the month of the blog post's selection and for 2 years after. Conclusion The Social Media Index's correlation with multiple quality evaluation instruments over time supports the hypothesis that it is associated with overall Web site quality. It can play a role in guiding individuals to high-quality resources that can be reviewed with critical appraisal techniques.
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- 2018