Are Health-Related Tweets Evidence Based? Review and Analysis of Health-Related Tweets on Twitter.

Background: Health care professionals are utilizing Twitter to communicate, develop disease surveillance systems, and mine health-related information. The immediate users of this health information is the general public, including patients. This necessitates the validation of health-related tweets by health care professionals to ensure they are evidence based and to avoid the use of noncredible information as a basis for critical decisions.

Safety of esophagogastroduodenoscopy within 30 days of myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study from a Canadian tertiary centre.

Background: Patients who experience myocardial infarction (MI) are at risk of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding complications. Endoscopic evaluation may lead to cardiopulmonary complications. Guidelines and studies regarding the safety of endoscopy in this population are limited.