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Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, May 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 64,693)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
Published in
British Medical Journal, May 2016
DOI 10.1136/bmj.i2139
Pubmed ID
Authors

Martin A Makary, Michael Daniel

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 14 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
France 3 <1%
Mexico 3 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 3092 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 473 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 321 10%
Student > Bachelor 313 10%
Researcher 288 9%
Other 236 8%
Other 776 25%
Unknown 731 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 951 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 420 13%
Engineering 138 4%
Computer Science 102 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 83 3%
Other 577 18%
Unknown 867 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7530. 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 March 2024.
All research outputs
#356
of 25,515,042 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#11
of 64,693 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3
of 312,672 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#2
of 895 outputs
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