Dijkstra Suzan, Kok Gautam, Ledford Julie G, Sandalova Elena, Stevelink Remi
University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2018 Dec 6;5:345. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00345. eCollection 2018.
We live in an age where the sharing of scientific findings and ideas is no longer confined to people with access to academic libraries or scientific journals. Social media have permitted for knowledge and ideas to be shared with an unprecedented speed and magnitude. This has made it possible for research findings to have a greater impact and to be rapidly implemented in society. However, the spread of unfiltered, unreferenced, and non-peer-reviewed articles through social media comes with dangers as well. In this perspective article, we aim to address both the possibilities and pitfalls of social media for translational medicine. We describe how social media can be used for patient engagement, publicity, transparency, sharing of knowledge, and implementing findings in society. Moreover, we warn about the potential pitfalls of social media, which can cause research to be misinterpreted and false beliefs to be spread. We conclude by giving advice on how social media can be harnessed to combat the pitfalls and provide a new avenue for community engagement in translational medicine.
我们生活在一个科学发现和思想的分享不再局限于能够使用学术图书馆或科学期刊的人群的时代。社交媒体使知识和思想以前所未有的速度和规模得以分享。这使得研究成果能够产生更大的影响，并在社会中迅速得到应用。然而，未经筛选、未引用且未经同行评审的文章通过社交媒体传播也存在危险。在这篇观点文章中，我们旨在探讨社交媒体在转化医学中的可能性和陷阱。我们描述了社交媒体如何用于患者参与、宣传、透明度、知识共享以及在社会中应用研究成果。此外，我们警告社交媒体可能存在的陷阱，这些陷阱可能导致研究被误解以及错误观念的传播。我们通过给出如何利用社交媒体来克服这些陷阱并为转化医学中的社区参与提供新途径的建议来结束本文。
