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Hospital privacy curtains are frequently and rapidly contaminated with potentially pathogenic bacteria

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Infection Control, March 2012
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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 (98th percentile)

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1 blog
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1 policy source
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Article details
Title
Hospital privacy curtains are frequently and rapidly contaminated with potentially pathogenic bacteria
Published in
American Journal of Infection Control, March 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.12.017
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Abstract

Privacy curtains are a potentially important site of bacterial contamination in hospitals. We performed a longitudinal study to determine the prevalence and time course of bacterial contamination on privacy curtains.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 105 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Student > Master 11 10%
Other 8 8%
Other 22 21%
Unknown 25 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 8%
Engineering 9 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 8 8%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 27 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 111. 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 10 November 2021.
All research outputs
#458,208
of 32,106,825 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Infection Control
#164
of 4,914 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,798
of 198,342 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Infection Control
#1
of 54 outputs
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