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| Title |
The impact of dialysis therapy on older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: a nationwide population-based study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0169-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Chia-Jen Shih, Yung-Tai Chen, Shuo-Ming Ou, Wu-Chang Yang, Shu-Chen Kuo, Der-Cherng Tarng, Taiwan Geriatric Kidney Disease Research (TGKD) Group |
| Abstract |
Older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) face the decision of whether to undergo dialysis. Currently available data on this issue are limited because they were generated by small, short-term studies with statistical drawbacks. Further research is urgently needed to provide objective information for dialysis decision making in older patients with advanced CKD. |
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 | 3 | 25% |
| India | 2 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 5 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 58% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 33% |
| Scientists | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 60 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 59 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 12% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 20% |
| Unknown | 14 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 38% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 15% |
| Psychology | 2 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 18 | 30% |
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 07 April 2015.
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#4,467,893
of 22,796,179 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,085
of 3,421 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,661
of 254,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#57
of 86 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,796,179 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,421 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.5. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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