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To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2025
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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 (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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Article details
Title
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study
Published in
Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2025
DOI 10.1136/jme-2024-109932
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 2 10%
Lecturer 2 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 10%
Other 1 5%
Professor 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 10 48%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 24%
Unspecified 2 10%
Social Sciences 2 10%
Philosophy 1 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 9 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 14 April 2025.
All research outputs
#3,565,281
of 28,573,925 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Ethics
#1,246
of 3,921 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,765
of 335,497 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Ethics
#7
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,573,925 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,921 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 32 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.