1. Facebook use leads to health-care reform in Taiwan.
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Abdul, Shabbir Syed, Che-Wei Lin, Scholl, Jeremiah, Fernandez-Luque, Luis, Wen-Shan Jian, Min-Huei Hsu, Der-Ming Liou, and Yu-Chuan Li
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WEBSITES , *EMERGENCY medical services , *HEALTH care reform , *ONLINE social networks - Abstract
The article describes how the web site www.Facebook.com enabled collaboration between stakeholders in emergency-medicine policy in Taiwan. It relates the creation of a Facebook group, Rescue the emergency room, by an emergency physician on February 8, 2011. It discusses how the Department of Health responded to the posts and likes of followers which led to health-care reform.
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- 2011
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