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Help seeking for cancer ‘alarm’ symptoms: a qualitative interview study of primary care patients in the UK

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of General Practice, January 2015
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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14 news outlets
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1 Facebook page

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128 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Help seeking for cancer ‘alarm’ symptoms: a qualitative interview study of primary care patients in the UK
Published in
British Journal of General Practice, January 2015
DOI 10.3399/bjgp15x683533
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Abstract

Delay in help seeking for cancer 'alarm' symptoms has been identified as a contributor to delayed diagnosis.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 127 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 15%
Researcher 18 14%
Student > Bachelor 16 13%
Other 8 6%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 28 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 13%
Psychology 12 9%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 2%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 42 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 105. 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 15 July 2026.
All research outputs
#512,062
of 34,410,798 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of General Practice
#183
of 5,799 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,166
of 409,133 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of General Practice
#2
of 47 outputs
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