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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Acute and Persistent Diarrhea
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Pediatric clinics of North America, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.pcl.2009.09.004 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Keith Grimwood, David A. Forbes |
| Abstract |
Socially disadvantaged Indigenous infants and children living in western industrialized countries experience high rates of infectious diarrhea, no more so than Aboriginal children from remote and rural regions of Northern Australia. Diarrheal disease, poor nutrition, and intestinal enteropathy reflect household crowding, inadequate water and poor sanitation and hygiene. Acute episodes of watery diarrhea are often best managed by oral glucose-electrolyte solutions with continuation of breastfeeding and early reintroduction of feeding. Selective use of lactose-free milk formula, short-term zinc supplementation and antibiotics may be necessary for ill children with poor nutrition, persistent symptoms, or dysentery. Education, high standards of environmental hygiene, breastfeeding, and immunization with newly licensed rotavirus vaccines are all needed to reduce the unacceptably high burden of diarrheal disease encountered in young children from Indigenous communities. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 167 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 164 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 24 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 14% |
| Researcher | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 33 | 20% |
| Unknown | 43 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 30% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 26 | 16% |
| Unknown | 52 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 02 June 2023.
All research outputs
#8,534,976
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Pediatric clinics of North America
#457
of 1,242 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,423
of 176,939 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pediatric clinics of North America
#4
of 6 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,242 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one is in the 37th percentile – i.e., 37% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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