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Pin site care for preventing infections associated with external bone fixators and pins

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)

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Title
Pin site care for preventing infections associated with external bone fixators and pins
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004551.pub3
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Authors

Anne Lethaby, Jenny Temple, Julie Santy-Tomlinson

Abstract

Metal pins are used to apply skeletal traction or external fixation devices in the management of orthopaedic fractures. These percutaneous pins protrude through the skin, and the way in which they are treated after insertion may affect the incidence of pin site infection. This review set out to summarise the evidence of pin site care on infection rates.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 227 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 17%
Student > Bachelor 30 13%
Researcher 29 13%
Other 23 10%
Student > Postgraduate 19 8%
Other 34 15%
Unknown 54 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 100 44%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 10%
Psychology 7 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Other 20 9%
Unknown 68 30%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 12 March 2023.
All research outputs
#7,161,254
of 23,377,816 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8,869
of 12,648 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#84,858
of 310,162 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#161
of 224 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,377,816 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
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