You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
“It Was the Best Decision of My Life”: a thematic content analysis of former medical tourists’ patient testimonials
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, January 2015
|
| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-16-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carly Hohm, Jeremy Snyder |
| Abstract |
Medical tourism is international travel with the intention of receiving medical care. Medical tourists travel for many reasons, including cost savings, limited domestic access to specific treatments, and interest in accessing unproven interventions. Medical tourism poses new health and safety risks to patients, including dangers associated with travel following surgery, difficulty assessing the quality of care abroad, and complications in continuity of care. Online resources are important to the decision-making of potential medical tourists and the websites of medical tourism facilitation companies (companies that may or may not be affiliated with a clinic abroad and help patients plan their travel) are an important source of online information for these individuals. These websites fail to address the risks associated with medical tourism, which can undermine the informed decision-making of potential medical tourists. Less is known about patient testimonials on these websites, which can be a particularly powerful influence on decision-making. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 40% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 99 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 95 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 18% |
| Researcher | 13 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 16% |
| Unknown | 21 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting | 15 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 13% |
| Psychology | 7 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 17 | 17% |
| Unknown | 29 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 October 2015.
All research outputs
#2,335,086
of 22,778,347 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#245
of 993 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,381
of 351,834 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#8
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,778,347 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 993 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 351,834 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its contemporaries.