Table 1.

Social media metrics for US Children’s Hospitals and correlation with US News ranking and reputation score.

Social media metrics	Number of hospitals	Median (range)	Partial correlation coefficient for total points (P value)	Partial correlation coefficient for total reputation (P value)
Twitter followers	69	8306 (163-63,400)	.465 (<.001)	.524 (<.001)
Number of tweets	69	4714 (116-23,400)	.0181 (.93)	−.036 (.80)
Klout score	62	58 (23-81)	.117 (.38)	.067 (.61)
Facebook followers	68	59,141 (772-649,407)	.392 (.002)	.518 (<.001)
Instagram followers	46	4879 (260-5600)	.197 (.21)	.177 (.26)