Report for: Systemic corticosteroids for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Title	Systemic corticosteroids for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Published in	Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2009
DOI	10.1002/14651858.cd001288.pub3
Pubmed ID	19160195
Authors	Walters, Julia AE, Gibson, Peter G, Wood-Baker, Richard, Hannay, Mairi, Walters, E. Haydn
Abstract	COPD is a common condition, mainly related to smoking. Acute exacerbations of COPD, usually related to superimposed infection, occur commonly and systemic corticosteroids are widely used in their management in combination with other treatments including antibiotics, oxygen supplementation and bronchodilators.

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
Unknown	1	100%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	1	100%

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United States	2	3%
United Kingdom	1	1%
Australia	1	1%
Spain	1	1%
Netherlands	1	1%
Unknown	71	92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Researcher	16	21%
Other	11	14%
Student > Master	8	10%
Student > Postgraduate	6	8%
Professor	5	6%
Other	19	25%
Unknown	12	16%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	51	66%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	4	5%
Nursing and Health Professions	3	4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	2	3%
Social Sciences	2	3%
Other	3	4%
Unknown	12	16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 14 September 2018.

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#990,233

of 13,514,418 outputs

Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews

#3,044

of 10,621 outputs

Outputs of similar age

#16,359

of 189,221 outputs

Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews

#65

of 200 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 13,514,418 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

So far Altmetric has tracked 10,621 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.

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Systemic corticosteroids for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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