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Our ailing aged care system shows you can't skimp on nursing care

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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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Our ailing aged care system shows you can't skimp on nursing care
Published by
The Conversation, June 2019
DOI 10.64628/aa.5h3wxs55h
Authors

Apil Gurung, Samantha Edwards

Abstract

Aged care facilities are employing fewer registered and enrolled nurses and more carers, which saves money but results in sub-standard care.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 142. 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 08 August 2022.
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#365,753
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#43,687
of 211,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,000
of 399,070 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#638
of 1,856 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 211,841 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
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