%0 Journal Article
%T #CGS2015: An Evaluation of Twitter Use at the Canadian Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting
%A Amanda Gardhouse
%A Bonnie Cheung
%A Camilla L. Wong
%A Christopher Frank
%A Laura Budd
%J Archive of "Canadian Geriatrics Journal".
%D 2018
%R 10.5770/cgj.21.302
%X Twitter is a microblogging platform increasingly used in medicine to overcome geographic barriers and promote international connections. Tweets, the 280-character microblogs, are catalogued by hashtags (#). This study evaluates and describes the participation, content, and impact of Twitter at the 2015 Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS) Annual Scientific Meeting, during which #CGS2015 was the official conference hashtag
%K Twitter
%K social media
%K blogging
%K information dissemination
%K medical education
%K conference
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6028172/