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标题：Questioning reliability assessments of health information on social media
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作者：Nicole K. Dalmer , BSc, MLIS, PhD Candidate
期刊名称：Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：0025-7338
出版年度：2017
卷号：105
期号：1
页码：61-68
DOI：10.5195/jmla.2017.108
语种：English
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：This narrative review examines assessments of the reliability of online health information retrieved through social media to ascertain whether health information accessed or disseminated through social media should be evaluated differently than other online health information. Several medical, library and information science, and interdisciplinary databases were searched using terms relating to social media, reliability, and health information. While social media’s increasing role in health information consumption is recognized, studies are dominated by investigations of traditional (i.e., non-social media) sites. To more richly assess constructions of reliability when using social media for health information, future research must focus on health consumers’ unique contexts, virtual relationships, and degrees of trust within their social networks.