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Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Quality & Safety, July 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 2,076)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
181 news outlets
book_reviews
1 book reviewer
blogs
13 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
321 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
29 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
2 Bluesky users
podcasts
3 podcasts

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mendeley
206 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA
Published in
BMJ Quality & Safety, July 2023
DOI 10.1136/bmjqs-2021-014130
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 206 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 8%
Researcher 17 8%
Other 11 5%
Student > Bachelor 9 4%
Student > Master 5 2%
Other 30 15%
Unknown 117 57%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 3%
Engineering 5 2%
Neuroscience 4 2%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 121 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1675. 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 03 October 2026.
All research outputs
#7,698
of 34,517,649 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Quality & Safety
#1
of 2,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#218
of 381,710 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Quality & Safety
#1
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,517,649 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,076 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 381,710 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.