Paracetamol is the most commonly administered medicine to children. A recent study highlighted the risk of overdose of paracetamol using British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) age-based dosing guidelines. This current study assesses the safety of changes to the UK paracetamol product dosing system proposed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) which include a larger number of narrower age bands and a single dose per age band.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
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8%
Business, Management and Accounting
1
4%
Unknown
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42%
Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 03 June 2012.
All research outputs
#14,146,599
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
#2,062
of 2,703 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,257
of 164,244 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
#13
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,668,244 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,703 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.0. This one is in the 22nd percentile – i.e., 22% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 164,244 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.
