You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Identification of the palliative phase in people with dementia: a variety of opinions between healthcare professionals
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, November 2015
|
| DOI | 10.1186/s12904-015-0053-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jasper van Riet Paap, Elena Mariani, Rabih Chattat, Raymond Koopmans, Hélène Kerhervé, Wojciech Leppert, Maria Forycka, Lukas Radbruch, Birgit Jaspers, Kris Vissers, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Yvonne Engels, on behalf of the IMPACT research team |
| Abstract |
People with dementia can benefit from a palliative care approach. Recommendations, such as those of the EAPC have been proposed to strengthen the provision of palliative care for this group of patients. Yet, it remains challenging for professionals to identify when a person with dementia is in need of palliative care. The objective of this study therefore was to explore when professionals in long-term care settings consider a person with dementia in need of palliative care. Teams with in total 84 professionals working in 13 long-term care settings from 6 countries (France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands) received a case-vignette concerning a person with dementia recently admitted to a nursing home. Teams were asked to discuss when they considered people with dementia eligible for palliative care. The constant comparative method was used to analyse their answers. Three different time points in the disease trajectory when people with dementia were considered to be eligible for palliative care were extracted: (1) early in the disease trajectory; (2) when signs and symptoms of advanced dementia are present; and (3) from the time point that curative treatment of co-morbidities is futile. Yet, none of these time points was uniformly considered by the professional teams across Europe. In some cases, professionals working in the same nursing home didn't even reach consensus when considering persons with dementia eligible for palliative care. The results of the study identified that professionals across Europe have different opinions regarding the time point when to consider a person with dementia in need of palliative care. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 22 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 | 23% |
| Canada | 3 | 14% |
| United States | 2 | 9% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 9 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 59% |
| Scientists | 5 | 23% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 131 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 13% |
| Researcher | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 27 | 21% |
| Unknown | 25 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 42 | 32% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 34 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 5% |
| Psychology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Unknown | 29 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 01 March 2017.
All research outputs
#2,628,827
of 25,754,670 outputs
Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#284
of 1,554 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,176
of 297,697 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#2
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,754,670 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,554 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 297,697 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.