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Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2011
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Title
Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd008273.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Raymond J Chan, Joan Webster, Louise Marquart

Abstract

Cancer patients experience distress and anxiety related to their diagnosis, treatment and the unfamiliar cancer centre. Strategies with the aim of orienting patients to a cancer care facility may improve patient outcomes. Although meeting patients' information needs at different stages is important, there is little agreement about the type of information and the timing for information to be given. Orientation interventions aim to address information needs at the start of a person's experience with a cancer care facility. The extent of any benefit of these interventions is unknown.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 203 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 31 15%
Student > Master 31 15%
Student > Bachelor 26 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 11%
Other 11 5%
Other 34 16%
Unknown 53 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 54 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 32 15%
Psychology 30 14%
Social Sciences 11 5%
Computer Science 5 2%
Other 21 10%
Unknown 57 27%

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 10 April 2017.
All research outputs
#6,909,831
of 22,659,164 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8,546
of 12,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#63,211
of 240,804 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#116
of 212 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,659,164 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 12,296 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.3. This one is in the 29th percentile – i.e., 29% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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