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Is there overutilisation of cataract surgery in England?

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Ophthalmology, December 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Title
Is there overutilisation of cataract surgery in England?
Published in
British Journal of Ophthalmology, December 2008
DOI 10.1136/bjo.2007.136150
Pubmed ID
Authors

N Black, J Browne, J van der Meulen, L Jamieson, L Copley, J Lewsey

Abstract

Following a 3.7-fold increase in the rate of cataract surgery in the UK between 1989 and 2004, concern has been raised as to whether this has been accompanied by an excessive decline in the threshold such that some operations are inappropriate. The objective was to measure the impact of surgery on a representative sample of patients so as to determine whether or not overutilisation of surgery is occurring.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 8%
Peru 1 2%
Unknown 46 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 18%
Other 7 14%
Student > Master 7 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 14 27%
Unknown 5 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 51%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Psychology 2 4%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 10 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 29 March 2023.
All research outputs
#3,799,086
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Ophthalmology
#713
of 6,047 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,104
of 181,680 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Ophthalmology
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,047 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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