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Appendectomy versus antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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3 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Appendectomy versus antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd008359.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ingrid MHA Wilms, Dominique ENM de Hoog, Dianne C de Visser, Heinrich MJ Janzing

Abstract

Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain. Present day treatment of choice for acute appendicitis is appendectomy, however complications are inherent to operative treatment. Though surgical appendectomy remains the standard treatment, several investigators have investigated conservative antibiotic treatment of acute appendicitis and reported good results.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 289 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 70 24%
Student > Master 46 16%
Other 27 9%
Student > Postgraduate 26 9%
Researcher 25 8%
Other 55 19%
Unknown 46 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 195 66%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 1%
Psychology 3 1%
Other 17 6%
Unknown 54 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. 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 May 2020.
All research outputs
#1,048,559
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,094
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,444
of 155,205 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#19
of 156 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,297 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% 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 has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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