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Trends in thyroid hormone prescribing and consumption in the UK

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, May 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Title
Trends in thyroid hormone prescribing and consumption in the UK
Published in
BMC Public Health, May 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-9-132
Pubmed ID
Authors

Anna L Mitchell, Bryan Hickey, Janis L Hickey, Simon HS Pearce

Abstract

Thyroid hormone replacement is one of the most commonly prescribed and cost effective treatments for a chronic disease. There have been recent changes in community prescribing policies in many areas of the UK that have changed patient access to necessary medications. This study aimed to provide a picture of thyroid hormone usage in the UK and to survey patient opinion about current community prescribing policies for levothyroxine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 5%
Germany 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 40 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 20%
Student > Master 7 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Lecturer 3 7%
Other 10 23%
Unknown 8 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 16%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 7%
Mathematics 2 5%
Unspecified 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 8 18%
Attention Score in Context

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 24 May 2022.
All research outputs
#1,929,142
of 22,953,506 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,125
of 14,957 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,963
of 93,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#6
of 43 outputs
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