Predatory Journals, Fake Conferences and Misleading Social Media: The Dark Side of Medical Information

We live in an age of information revolution, where trends in informing physicians and the lay public bring new challenges that must be faced by healthcare professionals. Predatory journals and fake conferences are common. Social media is full of false information, which results in serious public hea...

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Autores principales: Kert, Suzana, Švab, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sciendo 2021
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Invited Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33822833
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0012
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description We live in an age of information revolution, where trends in informing physicians and the lay public bring new challenges that must be faced by healthcare professionals. Predatory journals and fake conferences are common. Social media is full of false information, which results in serious public health damage. Therefore, it is important that health professionals communicate properly with the public and patients and that they address the education of both the public and other health professionals.
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spelling pubmed-80156542021-04-04 Predatory Journals, Fake Conferences and Misleading Social Media: The Dark Side of Medical Information Kert, Suzana Švab, Igor Zdr Varst Invited Editorial We live in an age of information revolution, where trends in informing physicians and the lay public bring new challenges that must be faced by healthcare professionals. Predatory journals and fake conferences are common. Social media is full of false information, which results in serious public health damage. Therefore, it is important that health professionals communicate properly with the public and patients and that they address the education of both the public and other health professionals. Sciendo 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8015654/ /pubmed/33822833 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0012 Text en © 2021 Suzana Kert, Igor Švab, published by Sciendo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015654/
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