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Unfit for Duty? Evaluation of 4 Years of Paramedic Preemployment Fitness Screening Test Results

Overview of attention for article published in Prehospital Emergency Care, October 2013
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Title
Unfit for Duty? Evaluation of 4 Years of Paramedic Preemployment Fitness Screening Test Results
Published in
Prehospital Emergency Care, October 2013
DOI 10.3109/10903127.2013.836264
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Authors

Kate E. Thornton, Mark G. L. Sayers

Abstract

Preemployment testing is utilized by many ambulance services. Surprisingly, there is limited published research on the efficacy of this testing in determining an employee's ability to complete the requirements of this physically demanding occupation.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
United Arab Emirates 1 1%
Unknown 64 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Researcher 3 4%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 25 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 15 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 19%
Sports and Recreations 5 7%
Psychology 3 4%
Engineering 2 3%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 27 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 06 October 2023.
All research outputs
#20,879,752
of 32,921,030 outputs
Outputs from Prehospital Emergency Care
#1,362
of 2,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#156,587
of 251,309 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Prehospital Emergency Care
#14
of 19 outputs
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