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Consultations with complementary and alternative medicine practitioners by older Australians: results from a national survey

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, April 2013
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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Title
Consultations with complementary and alternative medicine practitioners by older Australians: results from a national survey
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, April 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-13-73
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Authors

Laurann Yen, Tanisha Jowsey, Ian S McRae

Abstract

The use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) and CAM practitioners is common, most frequently for the management of musculoskeletal conditions. Knowledge is limited about the use of CAM practitioners by older people, and specifically those with other long term or chronic conditions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
India 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 101 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 21 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 16%
Student > Master 16 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 10%
Researcher 9 9%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 20 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 16%
Psychology 10 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Social Sciences 5 5%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 20 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 25 November 2014.
All research outputs
#1,977,396
of 24,520,187 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#342
of 3,848 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,921
of 203,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#8
of 66 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,848 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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