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| Title |
Bringing patient-centered tuberculosis diagnosis into the light of day
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, December 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-017-0992-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
J. Lucian Davis |
| Abstract |
In 2015, the WHO End TB Strategy laid out ambitious goals to dramatically reduce tuberculosis (TB) deaths, incidence, and catastrophic costs through research, bold new strategies, and patient-centered care. In this commentary, recent evidence on sputum collection strategies for smear microscopy is reviewed, and the argument is made that redesigning smear microscopy as a patient-centered service offers the only realistic and widely available strategy to advance TB diagnostic care towards the initial End TB Strategy goals laid out for 2025. Finally, the successful adoption of same-day sputum smear microscopy as a model for patient-centered TB care is suggested to be synergistic with and to form part of the scale-up of new TB diagnostic tools.Please see related article: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-017-0947-9. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 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 | 2 | 17% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 58% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 21 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 21 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 5 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 14% |
| Professor | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 10% |
| Other | 2 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 33% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 24% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 10% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 24 March 2018.
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#4,725,141
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,194
of 3,613 outputs
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#99,856
of 445,215 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#28
of 46 outputs
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