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| Title |
How and why are communities of practice established in the healthcare sector? A systematic review of the literature
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-11-273 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Geetha Ranmuthugala, Jennifer J Plumb, Frances C Cunningham, Andrew Georgiou, Johanna I Westbrook, Jeffrey Braithwaite |
| Abstract |
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are promoted in the healthcare sector as a means of generating and sharing knowledge and improving organisational performance. However CoPs vary considerably in the way they are structured and operate in the sector. If CoPs are to be cultivated to benefit healthcare organisations, there is a need to examine and understand their application to date. To this end, a systematic review of the literature on CoPs was conducted, to examine how and why CoPs have been established and whether they have been shown to improve healthcare practice. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 28 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 29% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Sweden | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 17 | 61% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 68% |
| Scientists | 5 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 450 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 1% |
| Canada | 5 | 1% |
| United States | 4 | <1% |
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 428 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 63 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 63 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 54 | 12% |
| Other | 38 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 27 | 6% |
| Other | 114 | 25% |
| Unknown | 91 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 127 | 28% |
| Social Sciences | 55 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 46 | 10% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 32 | 7% |
| Psychology | 19 | 4% |
| Other | 70 | 16% |
| Unknown | 101 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. 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 01 October 2018.
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#1,528,170
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#488
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#6,754
of 142,347 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#5
of 92 outputs
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