Table 1.
Characteristics of doctors and health care professionals sharing tweets disclosing information about others.
| Characteristics | Value (N=656), n (%) | ||
| Gender |
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Female | 384 (58.5) | |
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Male | 266 (40.5) | |
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Unknown | 6 (0.9) | |
| Profession |
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Doctor | 486 (74.1) | |
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Anesthesia | 22 (4.5) |
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Cardiology | 25 (5.1) |
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Critical care | 12 (2.5) |
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Emergency medicine | 77 (15.8) |
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Family medicine-general practitioner | 48 (9.9) |
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Gastroenterology | 6 (1.2) |
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Hematology-oncology | 39 (8.0) |
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Hospitalist | 5 (1.0) |
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Infectious disease | 5 (1.0) |
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Internal medicine | 12 (2.5) |
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Neurosurgery | 5 (1.0) |
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Obstetrics and gynecology | 13 (2.7) |
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Palliative care | 18 (3.7) |
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Pathology | 9 (1.9) |
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Pediatrics | 28 (5.8) |
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Psychiatry | 7 (1.4) |
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Pulmonary medicine | 7 (1.4) |
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Radiation oncology/clinical oncology | 10 (2.1) |
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Radiology | 6 (1.2) |
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Surgery | 19 (3.9) |
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Trauma surgery | 20 (4.1) |
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Unknown | 36 (7.4) |
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Other | 57 (11.7) |
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Nurse | 98 (14.9) | |
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Nurse, not otherwise specified | 66 (67.3) |
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Critical care | 16 (16.3) |
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Emergency medicine | 8 (8.2) |
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Other | 8 (8.2) |
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Nurse practitioner | 12 (1.8) | |
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Paramedic | 18 (2.7) | |
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Pharmacist | 7 (1.1) | |
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Physical therapy | 10 (1.5) | |
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Psychologist | 5 (0.8) | |
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Social worker | 7 (1.1) | |
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Speech therapy | 5 (0.8) | |
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Other | 8 (1.2) | |
| Country |
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Australia | 11 (1.7) | |
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Canada | 99 (15.1) | |
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India | 7 (1.1) | |
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Ireland | 16 (2.4) | |
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Saudi Arabia | 7 (1.1) | |
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South Africa | 4 (0.6) | |
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Spain | 4 (0.6) | |
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United Kingdom | 82 (12.5) | |
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United States | 347 (52.9) | |
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Unknown | 55 (8.3) | |
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Other | 24 (3.7) | |