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| Title |
The implementation of an external quality assurance method for point- of- care tests for HIV and syphilis in Tanzania
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-530 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pieter W Smit, David Mabey, Thomas van der Vlis, Hans Korporaal, Julius Mngara, John Changalucha, Jim Todd, Rosanna W Peeling |
| Abstract |
External quality assurance (EQA) programmes, which are routinely used in laboratories, have not been widely implemented for point-of- care tests (POCTs). A study was performed in ten health centres in Tanzania, to implement the use of dried blood spots (DBS) as an EQA method for HIV and syphilis (POCTs). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 53 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 51 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 19% |
| Other | 9 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 25% |
| Unknown | 4 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 30% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Unknown | 9 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 26 March 2018.
All research outputs
#6,780,136
of 23,885,338 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,160
of 8,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,544
of 218,980 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#29
of 123 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,885,338 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,002 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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