Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2021 Jan 25;10(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s13756-021-00891-1.
Social media may provide a tool, when coupled with a patient-included™ conference, to enhance the engagement among the general public. We describe authors and potential readers of Twitter content surrounding a patient-included™ scientific congress, the International Consortium for Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) 2019.
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.
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.
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.
社交媒体可能提供一种工具，如果与患者参与的会议相结合，可增强普通大众之间的互动。我们描述了围绕患者参与的科学大会（国际预防和感染控制联合会（ICPIC）2019 年）的 Twitter 内容的作者和潜在读者。
对会议期间使用#ICPIC2019 标签发布推文的 Twitter 用户进行回顾性观察分析。根据他们的 Twitter 个人资料，使用无监督学习对推文人、总体关注者和活跃关注者进行分类。探索了推文作者及其关注者的专业背景多样性。网络分析探索了作者之间的联系。
共有 1264 人参加了 ICPIC 2019 年会议，其中 28 人是患者。2019 年 9 月 7 日至 16 日，我们能够对与 474 名作者（76%）相关的 235620 条（41%）关注者进行分类。在作者和关注者中，分别有 34%和 14%是医疗保健工作者，11%和 15%是行业代表，8%和 7%是学术研究人员。平均而言，23%（范围 9-39%）的关注者与作者属于同一类别。在所有分类的关注者中，只有 582/235620（0.25%）与原始消息互动，包括医疗保健工作者（37%）、全球和公共卫生（12%）、学术研究（11%）和行业代表（11%）。尽管网络分析支持推文作者和关注者之间的相似性，但我们也观察到非医疗保健工作者（包括患者）似乎拥有更多样化的关注者。
我们观察到许多来自不同专业背景的推文作者和关注者的参与，这可能有助于将患者纳入会议，以吸引更广泛、非专业的公众。
