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. 2023 May;89(5):2094-2096.
doi: 10.1177/00031348211029878. Epub 2021 Jun 27.

Shifting the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress to 100% Virtual Format During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Is It Better for Knowledge Dissemination?

Kevin Newsome  1 , Mark McKenny  1   2 , Adel Elkbuli  1
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Shifting the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress to 100% Virtual Format During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Is It Better for Knowledge Dissemination?

Kevin Newsome et al. Am Surg. 2023 May.

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Am Surg. 2025 Mar;91(3):464-472. doi: 10.1177/00031348241305412. Epub 2025 Jan 10. Am Surg. 2025. PMID: 39791244 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(A) Total number of conference participants, twitter users, and tweets for ACSCC 2019 and 2020 (B) average tweets per participant and average tweets per hour for ACSCC 2019 and 2020 (C) twitter impressions in millions for ACSCC 2019 and 2020.
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