Dr Clifford Jones a Macmillan GP Facilitator in Aneurin Bevan Healthboard summarises a workshop seminar he attended at a Macmillan GP conference in London. Conference Twitter hashtag: #Macmillanpros What happens to our presence on social media when we die? And how do palliative care patients and professionals use social media? These were some of […]
Category: Social Media
Altmetric and its impact on research articles
by Dr Mark Taubert You may have noticed a small badge at the end of research articles in BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care and other journals’ online publications. This is an Altmetric badge, and it measures an article’s mentions in the social media world, for instance Twitter, Facebook and Google+. But […]
Palliative care through the eyes of social media
Written by Dr Mark Taubert and Dr Jacob Strand Welcome to a new feature in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, a dedicated social media section. Our aim is to highlight interesting developments in matters that bring together palliative and supportive care with the enormous world of social media. The breadth of postings that occur daily on social […]