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| Title |
Information technology systems in public sector health facilities in developing countries: the case of South Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6947-13-13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gregory B Cline, John M Luiz |
| Abstract |
The public healthcare sector in developing countries faces many challenges including weak healthcare systems and under-resourced facilities that deliver poor outcomes relative to total healthcare expenditure. Global references demonstrate that information technology has the ability to assist in this regard through the automation of processes, thus reducing the inefficiencies of manually driven processes and lowering transaction costs. This study examines the impact of hospital information systems implementation on service delivery, user adoption and organisational culture within two hospital settings in South Africa. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 3 | 23% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| India | 1 | 8% |
| Uganda | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 4 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 54% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 31% |
| Scientists | 1 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 466 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2 | <1% |
| Kenya | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 447 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 143 | 31% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 45 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 43 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 39 | 8% |
| Researcher | 31 | 7% |
| Other | 70 | 15% |
| Unknown | 95 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 117 | 25% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 58 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 54 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 34 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 34 | 7% |
| Other | 68 | 15% |
| Unknown | 101 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 November 2018.
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#3,313,746
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Outputs from BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
#274
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#35,340
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
#13
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Altmetric has tracked 23,577,654 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,025 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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