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Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2011
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user

Citations

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496 Dimensions

Readers on

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327 Mendeley
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Title
Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000125.pub4
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gerd Flodgren, Elena Parmelli, Gaby Doumit, Melina Gattellari, Mary Ann O'Brien, Jeremy Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles

Abstract

Clinical practice is not always evidence-based and, therefore, may not optimise patient outcomes. Opinion leaders disseminating and implementing 'best evidence' is one method that holds promise as a strategy to bridge evidence-practice gaps.

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 327 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 2%
Brazil 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Unknown 313 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 76 23%
Researcher 55 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 8%
Other 23 7%
Other 65 20%
Unknown 36 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 101 31%
Social Sciences 42 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 32 10%
Psychology 29 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 4%
Other 54 17%
Unknown 57 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 13 September 2018.
All research outputs
#2,048,128
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,317
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,444
of 131,750 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#26
of 107 outputs
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