Internet Medical Association: Perspectives on social media in and as research: A synthetic review.

March 7, 2015

Perspectives on social media in and as research: A synthetic review.

This review article looks at the use of social media by medical researchers. Methodological approaches have not been standardized. Social media can act as a tool for recruitment, data collection, and analysis. Social media can also act as raw data. (Int Rev Psychiatry. 2015 Mar 5:1-12.)