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Intraventricular antibiotics for bacterial meningitis in neonates

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2012
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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 (84th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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Title
Intraventricular antibiotics for bacterial meningitis in neonates
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004496.pub3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sachin S Shah, Arne Ohlsson, Vibhuti S Shah

Abstract

Neonatal meningitis may be caused by bacteria, especially gram-negative bacteria, which are difficult to eradicate from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) using safe doses of antibiotics. In theory, intraventricular administration of antibiotics would produce higher antibiotic concentrations in the CSF than intravenous administration alone, and eliminate the bacteria more quickly. However, ventricular taps may cause harm.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 163 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 162 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 15%
Student > Bachelor 22 13%
Researcher 18 11%
Student > Postgraduate 10 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 6%
Other 35 21%
Unknown 43 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 68 42%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 5%
Neuroscience 4 2%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 18 11%
Unknown 53 33%
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 04 January 2013.
All research outputs
#3,815,258
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#6,323
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,724
of 178,139 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#84
of 176 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,297 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 11,499 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.0. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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