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Screening for colorectal cancer using the faecal occult blood test, Hemoccult

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2007
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
17 X users

Citations

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499 Mendeley
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1 Connotea
Title
Screening for colorectal cancer using the faecal occult blood test, Hemoccult
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2007
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001216.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Paul Hewitson, Paul P Glasziou, Les Irwig, Bernie Towler, Eila Watson

Abstract

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in the Western world. The human and financial costs of this disease have prompted considerable research efforts to evaluate the ability of screening tests to detect the cancer at an early curable stage. Tests that have been considered for population screening include variants of the faecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy. Reducing mortality from colorectal cancer (CRC) may be achieved by the introduction of population-based screening programmes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Estonia 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 482 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 85 17%
Student > Bachelor 65 13%
Researcher 60 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 42 8%
Other 103 21%
Unknown 94 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 252 51%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 3%
Psychology 16 3%
Other 70 14%
Unknown 100 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 May 2023.
All research outputs
#687,642
of 25,501,527 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,280
of 13,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,519
of 174,153 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3
of 71 outputs
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