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Positive deviance: A program for sustained improvement in hand hygiene compliance

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Infection Control, February 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 (84th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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guideline
1 clinical guideline source

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Article details
Title
Positive deviance: A program for sustained improvement in hand hygiene compliance
Published in
American Journal of Infection Control, February 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.05.024
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Abstract

There is a paucity of data evaluating whether positive deviance (PD) can sustain improvement in hand hygiene compliance.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Japan 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 79 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 13%
Student > Master 11 13%
Other 5 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 21 25%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 13%
Psychology 9 11%
Environmental Science 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 24 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 August 2014.
All research outputs
#5,596,283
of 32,375,021 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Infection Control
#1,539
of 4,931 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,180
of 244,121 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Infection Control
#5
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,375,021 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,931 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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