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| Title |
Estimated Drug Overdose Deaths Averted by North America's First Medically-Supervised Safer Injection Facility
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0003351 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
M-J. S. Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Mark Tyndall, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood |
| Abstract |
Illicit drug overdose remains a leading cause of premature mortality in urban settings worldwide. We sought to estimate the number of deaths potentially averted by the implementation of a medically supervised safer injection facility (SIF) in Vancouver, Canada. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 6 | 32% |
| United States | 3 | 16% |
| Unknown | 10 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 79% |
| Scientists | 2 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 134 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 131 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 19% |
| Researcher | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 13% |
| Unknown | 30 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 10% |
| Psychology | 7 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 13% |
| Unknown | 38 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 417. 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 May 2024.
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#71,717
of 25,853,983 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#1,197
of 225,411 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112
of 103,893 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#2
of 406 outputs
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