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“Do your homework…and then hope for the best”: the challenges that medical tourism poses to Canadian family physicians’ support of patients’ informed decision-making

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Ethics, September 2013
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Title
“Do your homework…and then hope for the best”: the challenges that medical tourism poses to Canadian family physicians’ support of patients’ informed decision-making
Published in
BMC Medical Ethics, September 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6939-14-37
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Authors

Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A Crooks, Rory Johnston, Shafik Dharamsi

Abstract

Medical tourism-the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care-may limit patients' regular physicians' abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We address this issue by examining ways in which Canadian family doctors' typical involvement in patients' informed decision-making is challenged when their patients engage in medical tourism.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Portugal 1 1%
Unknown 79 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 17%
Researcher 9 11%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 14 17%
Social Sciences 10 12%
Psychology 6 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 23 28%
Attention Score in Context

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 03 December 2013.
All research outputs
#6,345,231
of 22,723,682 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#546
of 992 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#56,179
of 202,286 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#3
of 13 outputs
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