Association Between X/Twitter and Prescribing Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Ecological Study
Scott A Helgeson, Rohan M Mudgalkar, Keith A Jacobs, Augustine S Lee, Devang Sanghavi, Pablo Moreno Franco, Ian S Brooks, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), Amaryllis Mavragani, Kenneth Lin · 2024
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A team of co-authors presents a study from two thousand twenty-four on whether social media buzz tracked with doctors' prescribing during COVID-19. The drug in question is hydroxychloroquine, an old malaria drug promoted early in the pandemic on thin evidence. Social platforms spread health claims fast, with little checking, which can push practice ahead of proof.
The team gathered the drug's use in forty-eight United States hospitals across two thousand twenty. They set that beside posts on X, formerly Twitter, that mentioned the drug or its brand name, sorted by whether the tone was positive, negative, or neutral. The design tests for a population-level link between chatter and prescribing.
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| CREATOR | Scott A Helgeson, Rohan M Mudgalkar, Keith A Jacobs, Augustine S Lee, Devang Sanghavi, Pablo Moreno Franco, Ian S Brooks, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), Amaryllis Mavragani, Kenneth Lin |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |