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Association between hospital case volume and mortality in non-elderly pneumonia patients stratified by severity: a retrospective cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2014
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Title
Association between hospital case volume and mortality in non-elderly pneumonia patients stratified by severity: a retrospective cohort study
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BMC Health Services Research, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-302
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Hiraku Kumamaru, Yusuke Tsugawa, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kanako Kunishima Kumamaru, Hideki Hashimoto, Hideo Yasunaga

Abstract

The characteristics and aetiology of pneumonia in the non-elderly population is distinct from that in the elderly population. While a few studies have reported an inverse association between hospital case volume and clinical outcome in elderly pneumonia patients, the evidence is lacking in a younger population. In addition, the relationship between volume and outcome may be different in severe pneumonia cases than in mild cases. In this context, we tested two hypotheses: 1) non-elderly pneumonia patients treated at hospitals with larger case volume have better clinical outcome compared with those treated at lower case volume hospitals; 2) the volume-outcome relationship differs by the severity of the pneumonia.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 3%
Portugal 1 3%
Unknown 34 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 25%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 19%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 5 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 56%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 8%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 7 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 July 2014.
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#15,302,478
of 22,758,248 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#5,547
of 7,617 outputs
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#131,617
of 226,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#79
of 113 outputs
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