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Assisted deaths in Switzerland for UK residents: diagnoses and their implications for palliative medicine and assisted dying legislation

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care , February 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 2,173)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
22 X users

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Article details
Title
Assisted deaths in Switzerland for UK residents: diagnoses and their implications for palliative medicine and assisted dying legislation
Published in
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care , February 2024
DOI 10.1136/spcare-2023-004719
Pubmed ID
Authors

Colin Brewer, Marie-Claire Hopwood, Graham Winyard

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Student > Master 1 10%
Unknown 7 70%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 20%
Arts and Humanities 1 10%
Unknown 7 70%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. 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 March 2026.
All research outputs
#731,783
of 34,387,656 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
#36
of 2,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,239
of 382,758 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
#1
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,387,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,173 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 382,758 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 36 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 97% of its contemporaries.