aMedical Oncology, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia bUniversity of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. 2014 Mar;8(1):77-82. doi: 10.1097/SPC.0000000000000025.
To examine the current data supporting use of social media in breast cancer clinical care.
Although opportunities to utilize social media to increase knowledge have been commonly seized, the opportunity to improve communication among clinicians is lagging. Locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) requires timely coordination of care among many specialists, and presents an excellent scenario for enhanced utilization of current IT strategies.
A systematic review was conducted to assess the use of social media to enhance breast cancer care. In addition, a Web-based search using common search engines and publicly available social media was conducted to determine the prevalence of information and networking pages aimed at patients and clinicians. Over 400 articles were retrieved; 81% focused on delivery of information or online support to patients, 17% focused on delivery of information to physicians, and 1% focused on the use of social media to improve collaboration among clinicians. Web searches retrieved millions of hits, with very few hits relating to improving collaboration among clinicians. Although there is significant potential to utilize current technologies to improve care for patients and improve connectedness among clinicians, most of the currently available technologies focus solely on the delivery of information.
考察目前支持在乳腺癌临床护理中使用社交媒体的相关数据。
尽管人们常常利用社交媒体来增加知识，但在改善医患沟通方面的机会却乏善可陈。局部晚期乳腺癌（LABC）需要许多专家之间及时的协调护理，这为更好地利用当前的 IT 策略提供了极好的场景。
我们进行了一项系统综述，以评估利用社交媒体来增强乳腺癌护理的效果。此外，我们还通过常用搜索引擎和公开的社交媒体进行了基于网络的搜索，以确定针对患者和临床医生的信息和网络页面的普及程度。检索到 400 多篇文章；81%的文章侧重于向患者提供信息或在线支持，17%的文章侧重于向医生提供信息，1%的文章侧重于利用社交媒体来改善临床医生之间的协作。网络搜索检索到了数百万条信息，但与改善临床医生之间协作相关的信息却很少。尽管利用现有技术改善患者护理和增强临床医生之间的联系具有很大的潜力，但目前大多数可用技术仅专注于信息的传递。
