Christopher A Reynolds, Manish P Mehta, Ian P Erkkila, Sean Clements, Robert P Baskin, Chirag M Shah
BACKGROUND: Social media offers a popular, unfiltered source of patient and provider perspectives on health care. This study investigated the characteristics of social media posts referencing distal radius fracture (DRF). METHODS: Content was queried from Instagram from February 06, 2019, to December 08, 2021, using the hashtags "#distalradiusfracture" and "#wristfracture." The 1500 most-liked posts were analyzed. Poster demographics including age, gender, region, laterality, and treatment type and post characteristics including post type, number, content, timing relative to treatment, tone, and satisfaction were examined...
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