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| Title |
Search strategies to identify reports on “off-label” drug use in EMBASE
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Research Methodology, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2288-12-190 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bita Mesgarpour, Markus Müller, Harald Herkner |
| Abstract |
Medications are frequently prescribed outside their regulatory approval (off-label) by physicians particularly where appropriate therapies are not available. However, the risk/benefit ratio of drugs in off-label use needs to be critically appraised because it may differ from approved on-label usage. Therefore, an extensive exploration of current evidence on clinical data is well-advised. The objective of this study was to develop a search strategy that facilitates detection of the off-label drug use documents in EMBASE via OvidSP. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 4 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 7% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Portugal | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 24 | 83% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Librarian | 6 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 21% |
| Researcher | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 38% |
| Psychology | 2 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 7% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 6 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 11 December 2014.
All research outputs
#6,203,487
of 22,691,736 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#934
of 2,001 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,476
of 280,262 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#10
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,691,736 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,001 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 27 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 62% of its contemporaries.