[…] – "Friends or co‐workers" (28%) and the "hospital intranet" reminders (25%) were cited the most as motivators. –Only 1% of this group responded as having used the social media campaign pages directly. • Unfortunately, due to institution firewall issues, the program was not able to solicit followers for Facebook and Twitter by employee e‐mail. –This could have reduced the direct influence of the social media sites. – Therefore, it is difficult to assess the specific influence of social media on the slight increase in employee vaccination rates. •The social media outlets may have influenced HCWs indirectly •Almost one‐third of vaccine recipients were motivated by their friends/ coworkers, some of whom may have been influenced by the social media. Venciet al, Inclusion of social media‐based strategies in a health care worker influenza immunization campaign 46 American Journal of Infection Control, 43(8), 902–903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.04.185 •A research librarian searched 11 databases in January 2012: Medline, CENTRAL, ERIC, PubMed, CINAHL Plus Full Text, Academic Search Complete, Alt Health Watch, Health Source, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Web of Knowledge and ProQuest. Dates were restricted to 2000 or later, corresponding to the advent of Web 2.0. •Results:Two hundred eighty‐four studieswere included. – Discussion forums were highly prevalent and constitute 66.6% of the sample. –Social networking sites (14.8%) and blogs/microblogs (14.1%) were the next most commonly used tools. • Conclusions: There is an extensive body of literature examining the use of social media in patient and caregiver populations. Much of this work is descriptive; however, with such widespread use, evaluations of effectiveness are required. In studies that have examined effectiveness, positive conclusions are often reported, despite non‐ significant findings. Social media use among patients and caregivers: a scoping review (Hamm et al., 2013) 47 •Aim:to improve internal medicine residents’ (IMR) knowledge of correct antimicrobial use and increase their uptake of clinical pathways and order sets through the use of social media. •Methodology: The investigators enrolled 55 IMRs, and asked them to follow the hospital’s antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) on Facebook or Twitter for 6 months. –posted statements on the social media sites promoting the hospital’s ASP website and clinical pathways, focusing on the pathway for community‐acquired pneumonia. –posted and tweeted questions about antimicrobial prescribing. – residents were encouraged to respond, and answers were posted and tweeted by the research team the next business day •Pretest and post‐<mark...
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