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Twitter Me This—Can Social Media Revolutionize Academic Medicine?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

Kelly Cawcutt
Kelly Cawcutt*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
*
Address correspondence to Kelly Cawcutt, MD, MS, 985400 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198 (Kelly.cawcutt@unmc.edu and Twitter: @kcawcutt).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 12 , December 2017 , pp. 1501 - 1502
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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