GPs sometimes use euphemisms rather than medical terms. The present study aimed to explore the relative impact of using the term 'obese' compared to GPs' preferred euphemism on patients' beliefs about the problem.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 01 April 2021.
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Altmetric has tracked 34,359,530 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.
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