3 research outputs found
Vasoactive agents in acute mesenteric ischaemia in critical care. A systematic review
Acknowledgements With thanks to Helen Fulbright, PhD, MA, PGDip LIS, BA (Hons), MCLIP, Information Specialist, Royal College of Surgeons of England Library and Archives Team, for conducting the literature searchesPeer reviewedPublisher PD
Day of the week to tweet: A randomised controlled trial
Objective To assess the effects of using health social media on different days of the working week on web activity.Design Individually randomised controlled parallel group superiority trial.Setting Twitter and Weibo.Participants
194 Cochrane Schizophrenia Group full reviews with an abstract and
plain language summary web page. There were no human participants.Interventions
Three randomly ordered slightly different messages (maximum of 140
characters), each containing a short URL to the freely accessible
summary page, were sent on specific times on a single day. Each of these
messages sent on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was compared
with the one sent on Monday.Outcome
The primary outcome was visits to the relevant Cochrane summary web
page at 1âweek. Secondary outcomes were other metrics of web activity at
1âweek.Results
There was no evidence that disseminating microblogs on different days
of the working week resulted in any differences in target website
activity as measured by Google Analytics (n=194, all page views,
adjusted ratios of geometric means 0.86 (95% CI 0.63 to 1.18), 0.88 (95%
CI 0.64 to 1.21), 0.88 (95% CI 0.65 to 1.21), 0.91 (95% CI 0.66 to
1.24) for TuesdayâFriday, respectively, overall p=0.89). There were
consistent findings for all outcomes. However, activity on the review
site substantially increased compared with weeks preceding the
intervention.Conclusion
There are no clear differences in the effect when 1âweekday is compared
with another, but our study suggests that using microblogging social
media such as Twitter and Weibo do increase information-seeking
behaviour on health. Tweet any day but do Tweet.</div
Day of the week to tweet: a randomised controlled trial
Objective: To assess the effects of using health social media on different days of the working week on web activity.Design: Individually randomised controlled parallel group superiority trial.Setting: Twitter and Weibo.Participants: 194 Cochrane Schizophrenia Group full reviews with an abstract and plain language summary web page. There were no human participants.Interventions: Three randomly ordered slightly different messages (maximum of 140 characters), each containing a short URL to the freely accessible summary page, were sent on specific times on a single day. Each of these messages sent on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was compared with the one sent on Monday.Outcome: The primary outcome was visits to the relevant Cochrane summary web page at 1 week. Secondary outcomes were other metrics of web activity at 1 week.Results: There was no evidence that disseminating microblogs on different days of the working week resulted in any differences in target website activity as measured by Google Analytics (n=194, all page views, adjusted ratios of geometric means 0.86 (95% CI 0.63 to 1.18), 0.88 (95% CI 0.64 to 1.21), 0.88 (95% CI 0.65 to 1.21), 0.91 (95% CI 0.66 to 1.24) for TuesdayâFriday, respectively, overall p=0.89). There were consistent findings for all outcomes. However, activity on the review site substantially increased compared with weeks preceding the intervention.Conclusion: There are no clear differences in the effect when 1 weekday is compared with another, but our study suggests that using microblogging social media such as Twitter and Weibo do increase information-seeking behaviour on health. Tweet any day but do Tweet