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Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence From The English NHS Patient Choice Reforms*

Overview of attention for article published in Economic Journal, July 2011
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
12 policy sources
twitter
104 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
3 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread

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390 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence From The English NHS Patient Choice Reforms*
Published in
Economic Journal, July 2011
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02449.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 10 3%
United States 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 373 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 85 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 63 16%
Researcher 50 13%
Student > Bachelor 25 6%
Other 23 6%
Other 64 16%
Unknown 80 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 100 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 63 16%
Social Sciences 53 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 28 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 4%
Other 36 9%
Unknown 95 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 150. 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 October 2025.
All research outputs
#349,416
of 34,600,706 outputs
Outputs from Economic Journal
#61
of 3,783 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,121
of 168,382 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Economic Journal
#1
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,600,706 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,783 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.