Original Article

THE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF POSTS IN ELECTRONIC MAILING GROUP CALLED 'TURK-SPINE'

  • Tolga KEÇECİ
  • Tahir Mutlu DUYMUŞ
  • Suavi AYDOĞMUŞ
  • Levent ADIYEKE
  • Mehmet Oğuz DURAKBAŞA

Received Date: 23.07.2016 Accepted Date: 14.09.2016 J Turk Spinal Surg 2016;27(4):237-240

Objective:

The purpose of this study is to define the content of e-mail messages from the group of Turk-spine between 2001 and 2015.

Methods:

E-mail messages received from Turk- Spine group were analyzed between 2001 and 2015, documented by categorizing to 6 groups.

Conclusion:

4260 messages have been sent to the group. The number of messages sent in 2001 was 70, this number reached to 1179 in 2013. The main issues in received messages were noted as congress, symposium, meeting announcements (31.7%) and greetings, condolences and social messages (25.3%). Cases and scientific discussions constitute 14.5% and 4.4% of messages, respectively.

Inference:

This study reveals the importance of communication of surgeons interested in spine by e-mail. Although there is a minority of scientific topics and messages, e-mail group continues to grow day by day and its importance is increasing.

Keywords: Spine surgery, communication group, scientific publication