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| Title |
Evaluation of the safety of C-spine clearance by paramedics: design and methodology
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Emergency Medicine, February 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-227x-11-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Christian Vaillancourt, Manya Charette, Ann Kasaboski, Justin Maloney, George A Wells, Ian G Stiell |
| Abstract |
Canadian Emergency Medical Services annually transport 1.3 million patients with potential neck injuries to local emergency departments. Less than 1% of those patients have a c-spine fracture and even less (0.5%) have a spinal cord injury. Most injuries occur before the arrival of paramedics, not during transport to the hospital, yet most patients are transported in ambulances immobilized. They stay fully immobilized until a bed is available, or until physician assessment and/or X-rays are complete. The prolonged immobilization is often unnecessary and adds to the burden of already overtaxed emergency medical services systems and crowded emergency departments. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 143 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 34 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 20% |
| Unknown | 31 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 72 | 50% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Psychology | 4 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Unknown | 35 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 28 November 2015.
All research outputs
#7,229,557
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from BMC Emergency Medicine
#321
of 781 outputs
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#52,791
of 186,195 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Emergency Medicine
#2
of 3 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 781 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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