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Protocol for a thematic synthesis to identify key themes and messages from a palliative care research network

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, October 2016
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Title
Protocol for a thematic synthesis to identify key themes and messages from a palliative care research network
Published in
BMC Research Notes, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13104-016-2282-1
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Authors

Emma Nicholson, Tara Murphy, Philip Larkin, Charles Normand, Suzanne Guerin

Abstract

Research networks that facilitate collaborative research are increasing both regionally and globally and such collaborations contribute greatly to knowledge transfer particularly in health research. The Palliative Care Research Network is an Irish-based network that seeks to create opportunities and engender a collaborative environment to encourage innovative research that is relevant for policy and practice. The current review outlines a methodology to identify cross-cutting messages to identify how dissemination outputs can be optimized to ensure that key messages from this research reaches all knowledge users. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocol guidelines will inform the search and analysis plan to ensure that the synthesis of the data is as rigorous as possible. An approach based on critical interpretative synthesis will be adapted to include a thematic synthesis for the identification of higher-order themes and messages from a body of dissemination products generated by the Palliative Care Research Network. The thematic synthesis outlined in the present protocol offers a novel method of synthesising data from a focused research network that employs a variety of dissemination materials as a means of identifying key themes and messages from a specific body of research. The high-level themes and messages will be identified from the thematic synthesis, widely disseminated and targeted towards a range of stakeholders and knowledge users such as carers, health and social care professionals, policy makers and researchers.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 166 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 17%
Student > Bachelor 19 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 11%
Researcher 14 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 56 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 32 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 11%
Psychology 13 8%
Social Sciences 10 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 5%
Other 25 15%
Unknown 59 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 07 December 2016.
All research outputs
#6,776,932
of 26,409,992 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#946
of 4,540 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#92,368
of 327,040 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#11
of 34 outputs
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