Table 1.
Categories and subcategories of social media accounts.
Category | Description | Subcategories |
Association | Professional associations | Hospital association, international association, medical association, and scientific association |
Community | Civilian communities | Community Facebook page |
Education | Educational outlets | Facebook page, hospital, national library, research institution, university, and university Facebook page |
Enterprise | For-profit firms | Directory, laboratory, and pharmacy |
Hospital | Health service providers | Clinic and institute |
Individual | Common citizens | Journalist and physician |
Media | Media companies | Blog, magazine, migrated media, new media, news agency, newspaper, portal, radio station, TV channel, and TV news channel |
NGOa | Nonprofit organization | Organizations not for profit |
Unknown | Uncleared items | All other items |
aNGO: nongovernmental organization.