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A cross-sectional analysis of symptom severity in adults with influenza and other acute respiratory illness in the outpatient setting

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, May 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
A cross-sectional analysis of symptom severity in adults with influenza and other acute respiratory illness in the outpatient setting
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-14-231
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Authors

Jeffrey J VanWormer, Maria E Sundaram, Jennifer K Meece, Edward A Belongia

Abstract

Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are common in outpatient practice, and the severity of symptoms contributes to the overall burden of illness. We examined the association between a subjective symptom severity score, demographic and clinical characteristics, and presence of laboratory-confirmed influenza among central Wisconsin adults who sought care for ARI during four influenza seasons. We hypothesized that adults with laboratory-confirmed influenza would rate their symptoms as more severe relative to adults without influenza, and vaccinated adults with influenza would rate symptoms as less severe than those who were not vaccinated.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 44 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 17%
Researcher 8 17%
Student > Bachelor 6 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 13%
Other 2 4%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 11 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 39%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 9%
Psychology 4 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 12 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. 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 10 January 2024.
All research outputs
#535,388
of 25,142,442 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#126
of 8,469 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,730
of 234,057 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3
of 158 outputs
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