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Patient and public attitudes to and awareness of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review with thematic and narrative syntheses

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2014
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Title
Patient and public attitudes to and awareness of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review with thematic and narrative syntheses
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-321
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Authors

Kirsty Loudon, Nancy Santesso, Margaret Callaghan, Judith Thornton, Jenny Harbour, Karen Graham, Robin Harbour, Ilkka Kunnamo, Helena Liira, Emma McFarlane, Karen Ritchie, Shaun Treweek

Abstract

Clinical practice guidelines are typically written for healthcare providers but there is increasing interest in producing versions for the public, patients and carers. The main objective of this review is to identify and synthesise evidence of the public's attitudes towards clinical practice guidelines and evidence-based recommendations written for providers or the public, together with their awareness of guidelines.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 4%
Brazil 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 108 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 15%
Student > Master 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 23 20%
Unknown 30 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 12%
Social Sciences 12 10%
Psychology 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 34 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 October 2014.
All research outputs
#1,217,217
of 25,311,095 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#342
of 8,604 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,817
of 236,400 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#9
of 127 outputs
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