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Positive Deviance A New Strategy for Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance

Overview of attention for article published in Infection control and hospital epidemiology (Online), January 2015
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Positive Deviance A New Strategy for Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance
Published in
Infection control and hospital epidemiology (Online), January 2015
DOI 10.1086/649224
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Abstract

To evaluate the effectiveness of a positive deviance strategy for the improvement of hand hygiene compliance in 2 adult step-down units.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 147 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 33 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 12%
Student > Bachelor 14 9%
Student > Master 14 9%
Other 7 5%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 40 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 12%
Psychology 12 8%
Social Sciences 11 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 5%
Other 26 17%
Unknown 45 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 28 March 2018.
All research outputs
#2,932,518
of 34,410,798 outputs
Outputs from Infection control and hospital epidemiology (Online)
#953
of 6,159 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,740
of 409,665 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Infection control and hospital epidemiology (Online)
#241
of 2,013 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,798 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,159 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 2,013 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.