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The contribution of Physician Assistants in primary care: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, June 2013
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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 (99th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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1 blog
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3 policy sources
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Article details
Title
The contribution of Physician Assistants in primary care: a systematic review
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-223
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 153 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 16%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Student > Postgraduate 12 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 6%
Researcher 9 6%
Other 31 20%
Unknown 55 35%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 5%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 59 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 09 December 2025.
All research outputs
#819,494
of 32,332,113 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#166
of 10,306 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,256
of 233,576 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#1
of 121 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 10,306 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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