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Grommets (ventilation tubes) for recurrent acute otitis media in children

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2008
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

Mentioned by

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1 news outlet
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2 tweeters
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1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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Title
Grommets (ventilation tubes) for recurrent acute otitis media in children
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2008
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004741.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Stephen McDonald, Claire D Langton Hewer, Desmond A Nunez

Abstract

Acute suppurative otitis media is one of the most common infectious diseases in childhood. Recurrent acute otitis media is defined for the purposes of this review as either three or more acute infections of the middle ear cleft in a six-month period, or at least four episodes in a year. Strategies for managing the condition include the assessment and modification of risk factors where possible, repeated courses of antibiotics for each new infection, antibiotic prophylaxis and the insertion of ventilation tubes (grommets).

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Denmark 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Unknown 66 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Other 6 9%
Researcher 6 9%
Other 16 23%
Unknown 14 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 50%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 10%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Psychology 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 15 21%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 17 February 2017.
All research outputs
#2,200,248
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,764
of 12,745 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,213
of 91,163 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#16
of 66 outputs
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