Table 2.
Content characteristics tweets with disclosures about others.
| Content characteristic | Value (N=754), n (%) | |||
| Author role |
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Health care professional | 669 (88.7) | ||
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Patient | 0 (0.0) | ||
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Caregiver | 42 (5.6) | ||
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Other | 43 (5.7) | ||
| Time frame described |
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Within past year | 5 (0.7) | ||
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1-2 years | 6 (0.8) | ||
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2-5 years | 5 (0.7) | ||
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> 5 years | 79 (10.5) | ||
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Unknown/not described | 659 (87.4) | ||
| Content |
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Author involved in patient care | 635 (84.2) | ||
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Dying patient or patient death | 337 (44.7) | ||
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Saving a patient’s life | 131 (17.4) | ||
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Include a clinical image | 11 (1.5) | ||
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Include patient name | 15 (2.0) | ||
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Provide specific patient age | 163 (21.6) | ||
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Express negative opinion of patient or family | 4 (0.5) | ||
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Mention medical error | 6 (0.8) | ||
| Estimated likely |
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Can family or friends identify situation described? | 242 (32.1) | ||
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Can patient identify situation described? |
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All tweets | 183 (24.3) | |
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Potentially living patients (n=348) | 162 (46.6) | |
| Vulnerable population | 152 (20.2) | |||