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| Title |
Patient delay in cancer diagnosis: what do we really mean and can we be more specific?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-387 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Christina Mary Dobson, Andrew James Russell, Greg Paul Rubin |
| Abstract |
Early diagnosis is a key focus of cancer control because of its association with survival. Delays in diagnosis can occur throughout the diagnostic pathway, within any one of its three component intervals: the patient interval, the primary care interval and the secondary care interval. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 63% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 5 | 63% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 129 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 129 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 13% |
| Researcher | 15 | 12% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 23 | 18% |
| Unknown | 29 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 34% |
| Psychology | 12 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 18 | 14% |
| Unknown | 36 | 28% |
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 October 2014.
All research outputs
#5,983,787
of 22,764,165 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,732
of 7,618 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,198
of 243,384 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#44
of 129 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,764,165 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,618 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 129 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.