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Tweet Now, See You In the ED Later? Examining the Association Between
Alcohol-related Tweets and Emergency Care Visits
#MMPMID27062454
Ranney ML
; Chang B
; Freeman JR
; Norris B
; Silverberg M
; Choo EK
Acad Emerg Med
2016[Jul]; 23
(7
): 831-4
PMID27062454
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BACKGROUND: Alcohol use is a major and unpredictable driver of emergency
department (ED) visits. Regional Twitter activity correlates ecologically with
behavioral outcomes. No such correlation has been established in real time.
OBJECTIVES: The objective was to examine the correlation between real-time,
alcohol-related tweets and alcohol-related ED visits. METHODS: We developed and
piloted a set of 11 keywords that identified tweets related to alcohol use.
In-state tweets were identified using self-declared profile information or
geographic coordinates. Using Datasift, a third-party vendor, a random sample of
1% of eligible tweets containing the keywords and originating in state were
downloaded (including tweet date/time) over 3 discrete weeks in 3 different
months. In the same time frame, we examined visits to an urban, high-volume,
Level I trauma center that receives > 25% of the emergency care volume in the
state. Alcohol-related ED visits were defined as visits with a chief complaint of
alcohol use, positive blood alcohol, or alcohol-related ICD-9 code. Spearman's
correlation coefficient was used to examine the hourly correlation between
alcohol-related tweets, alcohol-related ED visits, and all ED visits. RESULTS: A
total of 7,820 tweets (representing 782,000 in-state alcohol-related tweets
during the 3 weeks) were identified. Concurrently, 404 ED visits met criteria for
being alcohol-related versus 2939 non-alcohol-related ED visits. There was a
statistically significant relationship between hourly alcohol-related tweet
volume and number of alcohol-related ED visits (rs = 0.31, p < 0.00001), but not
between hourly alcohol-related tweet volume and number of non-alcohol-related ED
visits (rs = -0.07, p = 0.11). CONCLUSION: In a single state, a statistically
significant relationship was observed between the hourly number of
alcohol-related tweets and the hourly number of alcohol-related ED visits.
Real-time Twitter monitoring may help predict alcohol-related surges in ED
visits. Future studies should include larger numbers of EDs and natural language
processing.
|*Alcohol Drinking
[MESH]
|*Emergency Medical Services
[MESH]
|*Social Media
[MESH]
|Adult
[MESH]
|Emergency Service, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data
[MESH]