Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Phase 2-Considerations for Non-Accredited Nonprofit Organizations, For-Profit Entities, and Individual Sources.

Abstract

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, MACP, Council of Medical Specialty Societies and George Washington University School of Medicine; Susan Curry, PhD, University of Iowa; Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, Yale School of Public Health; Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, The University of Chicago Medicine; Brian Boxer Wachler, MD, Boxer Wachler Vision Institute; Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute; Ricardo Correa, MD, EdD, The University of Arizona College of Medicine; Donna Cryer, JD, Global Liver Institute and Council of Medical Specialty Societies Board of Directors; Don Dizon, MD, FACP, FASCO, Brown University, Lifespan Cancer Institute, Legorreta Cancer Center, and Rhode Island Hospital; Efrén J. Flores, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Gerald Harmon, MD, Tidelands Health and American Medical Association; Anjali Jain, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Kevin Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FAMIA, FACMI, University of Pennsylvania; Christine Laine, MD, MPH, Annals of Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, and American College of Physicians; Lindsey Leininger, PhD, Dartmouth College; Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education; Laura Michaelis, MD, Froedtert Hospital Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin; Ripudaman Minhas, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FAAP, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto; Richard Mularski, MD, MSHS, MCR, ATSF, FCCP, FACP, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; John Oldham, MD, MS, Baylor College of Medicine; Rema Padman, PhD, FAMIA, Carnegie Mellon University; Claude Pinnock, MD, MPH, Wider Circle; Jessica Rivera, MS, The Pandemic Tracking Collective, The Rockefeller Foundation; Brian Southwell, PhD, RTI International; Antonia Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, University of Pennsylvania; and Katrine Wallace, PhD, CPH, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health