The last century has seen revolutionary changes in health-care delivery and treatment of surgical diseases. Equally dramatic has been the changes in health-care economics, including the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965. To better characterize the impact to surgical billing, we have undertaken an analysis of physician fees for common general surgical procedures during the past century.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 17 May 2011.
All research outputs
#7,646,787
of 28,840,878 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the American College of Surgeons
#2,116
of 4,887 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,365
of 108,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the American College of Surgeons
#15
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,840,878 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,887 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 108,506 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 31 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
