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Wrapping the tweets, news and views from #MHED18

Melissa Sweet
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Mental health, Healthcare, Emergency departments and care, Hospitals, #MHED18

Below is our final post from the recent Mental Health in the Emergency Department Summit, compiling #MHED18 tweets.

Warm thanks to all who contributed to sharing the news and discussions. See our previous articles about the summit at this link.

Introductions

The program

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The Summit trended nationally on Twitter and the analytics show 315 participants used the hashtag, creating almost 9.5 million Twitter impressions during the period of Croakey’s coverage. They can be seen in full here and below. Also see the Twitter transcript at Symplur.

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Wrapping the tweets, news and views from #MHED18

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The program

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Twitter analytics

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