| Title |
What is known about the patient's experience of medical tourism? A scoping review
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, September 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-10-266 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Valorie A Crooks, Paul Kingsbury, Jeremy Snyder, Rory Johnston |
| Abstract |
Medical tourism is understood as travel abroad with the intention of obtaining non-emergency medical services. This practice is the subject of increasing interest, but little is known about its scope. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 386 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 2 | <1% |
| India | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 369 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 71 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 64 | 17% |
| Researcher | 44 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 32 | 8% |
| Other | 68 | 18% |
| Unknown | 67 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 78 | 20% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 60 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 60 | 16% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 21 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 4% |
| Other | 68 | 18% |
| Unknown | 83 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 20 August 2013.
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#5,545,683
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,399
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#26,564
of 95,143 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#14
of 30 outputs
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