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Exploring what lies behind public preferences for avoiding health losses caused by lapses in healthcare safety and patient lifestyle choices

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2013
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Title
Exploring what lies behind public preferences for avoiding health losses caused by lapses in healthcare safety and patient lifestyle choices
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BMC Health Services Research, July 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-249
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Jeshika Singh, Louise Longworth, Amanda Baine, Joanne Lord, Shepley Orr, Martin Buxton

Abstract

Although many studies have identified public preferences for prioritising health care interventions based on characteristics of recipient or care, very few of them have examined the reasons for the stated preferences. We conducted an on-line person trade-off (PTO) study (N=1030) to investigate whether the public attach a premium to the avoidance of ill health associated with alternative types of responsibilities: lapses in healthcare safety, those caused by individual action or lifestyle choice; or genetic conditions. We found that the public gave higher priority to prevention of harm in a hospital setting such as preventing hospital associated infections than genetic disorder but drug administration errors were valued similar to genetic disorders. Prevention of staff injuries, lifestyle diseases and sports injuries, were given lower priority. In this paper we aim to understand the reasoning behind the responses by analysing comments provided by respondents to the PTO questions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 41 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Researcher 5 12%
Other 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 11 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 14%
Social Sciences 5 12%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 9%
Sports and Recreations 2 5%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 13 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 17 September 2013.
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#13,039,391
of 22,715,151 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,365
of 7,597 outputs
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#99,592
of 194,351 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#65
of 124 outputs
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