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Analysis of decisions made in meta-analyses of depression screening and the risk of confirmation bias: A case study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, June 2012
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Title
Analysis of decisions made in meta-analyses of depression screening and the risk of confirmation bias: A case study
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-12-76
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Authors

Felicity A Goodyear-Smith, Mieke L van Driel, Bruce Arroll, Chris Del Mar

Abstract

Depression is common in primary care and clinicians are encouraged to screen their patients. Meta-analyses have evaluated the effectiveness of screening, but two author groups consistently reached completely opposite conclusions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 2%
Unknown 64 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 20%
Researcher 12 18%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Student > Master 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 13 20%
Unknown 11 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 29%
Psychology 19 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Linguistics 1 2%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 12 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 28 February 2014.
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#3,158,311
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Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#478
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#19,968
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#4
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