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A pilot registry of unexplained fatiguing illnesses and chronic fatigue syndrome

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, August 2013
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Title
A pilot registry of unexplained fatiguing illnesses and chronic fatigue syndrome
Published in
BMC Research Notes, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-6-309
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Dana J Brimmer, Elizabeth Maloney, Rebecca Devlin, James F Jones, Roumiana Boneva, Caryn Nagler, Lisa LeRoy, Scott Royal, Hao Tian, Jin-Mann S Lin, Jennifer Kasten, Elizabeth R Unger

Abstract

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has no diagnostic clinical signs or biomarkers, so diagnosis requires ruling out conditions with similar signs and symptoms. We conducted a pilot registry of unexplained fatiguing illnesses and CFS to determine the feasibility of establishing and operating a registry and implementing an education outreach initiative. The pilot registry was conducted in Bibb County, Georgia. Patient referrals were obtained from healthcare providers who were identified by using various education outreach initiatives. These referrals were later supplemented with self-referrals by members of a local CFS support group. All patients meeting referral criteria were invited to participate in a screening interview to determine eligibility. If patients met registry criteria, they were invited to a one-day clinic for physical and laboratory evaluations. We classified patients based on the 1994 case definition.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 24%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 16%
Student > Master 3 12%
Other 2 8%
Librarian 2 8%
Other 5 20%
Unknown 3 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 8%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 13 July 2015.
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#2,266,078
of 22,715,151 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#287
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#20,669
of 198,117 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#7
of 64 outputs
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