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Assessing the contribution of prescribing in primary care by nurses and professionals allied to medicine: a systematic review of literature

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, December 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (79th percentile)

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Title
Assessing the contribution of prescribing in primary care by nurses and professionals allied to medicine: a systematic review of literature
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, December 2011
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-11-330
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Authors

Sadiq Bhanbhro, Vari M Drennan, Robert Grant, Ruth Harris

Abstract

Safe and timely access to effective and appropriate medication through primary care settings is a major concern for all countries addressing both acute and chronic disease burdens. Legislation for nurses and other professionals allied to medicine to prescribe exists in a minority of countries, with more considering introducing legislation. Although there is variation in the range of medicines permitted to be prescribed, questions remain as to the contribution prescribing by nurses and professionals allied to medicine makes to the care of patients in primary care and what is the evidence on which clinicians, commissioners of services and policy makers can consider this innovation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 3%
Spain 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 178 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 18%
Researcher 28 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 15%
Student > Bachelor 14 8%
Other 12 6%
Other 34 18%
Unknown 37 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 42 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 41 22%
Social Sciences 19 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 12 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 5%
Other 21 11%
Unknown 42 23%
Attention Score in Context

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 15 November 2022.
All research outputs
#5,198,261
of 25,292,378 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,495
of 8,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,040
of 251,784 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#18
of 82 outputs
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