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Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of re-presentation to an Australian inner-city emergency department: implications for service delivery

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, November 2007
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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Title
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of re-presentation to an Australian inner-city emergency department: implications for service delivery
Published in
BMC Public Health, November 2007
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-7-320
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gaye Moore, Marie Gerdtz, Elizabeth Manias, Graham Hepworth, Andrew Dent

Abstract

People who have complex health care needs frequently access emergency departments for treatment of acute illness and injury. In particular, evidence suggests that those who are homeless, or suffer mental illness, or have a history of substance misuse, are often repeat users of emergency departments. The aim of this study was to describe the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of emergency department re-presentations. Re-presentation was defined as a return visit to the same emergency department within 28 days of discharge from hospital.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 78 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 75 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 24%
Student > Master 13 17%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Other 7 9%
Student > Postgraduate 6 8%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 13 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 41%
Social Sciences 8 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Psychology 3 4%
Computer Science 2 3%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 17 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 14 December 2020.
All research outputs
#666,894
of 22,739,983 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#678
of 14,811 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,098
of 76,829 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#2
of 31 outputs
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