Finding the signal in the noise: Could social media be utilized for early hospital notification of multiple casualty events?

Delayed notification and lack of early information hinder timely hospital based activations in large scale multiple casualty events. We hypothesized that Twitter real-time data would produce a unique and reproducible signal within minutes of multiple casualty events and we investigated the timing of...

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Main Authors: Rachael A Callcut, Sara Moore, Glenn Wakam, Alan E Hubbard, Mitchell J Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5628942?pdf=render