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Designation, diligence and drift: understanding laboratory expenditure increases in British Columbia, 1996/97 to 2005/06

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, December 2012
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Title
Designation, diligence and drift: understanding laboratory expenditure increases in British Columbia, 1996/97 to 2005/06
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BMC Health Services Research, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-12-472
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Authors

Saskia N Sivananthan, Sandra Peterson, Ruth Lavergne, Morris L Barer, Kimberlyn M McGrail

Abstract

Laboratory testing is one of the fastest growing areas of health services spending in Canada. We examine the extent to which increases in laboratory expenditures might be explained by testing that is consistent with guidelines for the management of chronic conditions, by analyzing fee-for-service physician payment data in British Columbia from 1996/97 and 2005/06.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 4%
Italy 1 2%
Unknown 44 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 17%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Professor 3 6%
Other 9 19%
Unknown 11 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 15 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 05 November 2015.
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#13,373,909
of 22,689,790 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,599
of 7,584 outputs
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#158,051
of 280,032 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#78
of 125 outputs
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