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Measuring the effect of enhanced cleaning in a UK hospital: a prospective cross-over study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, June 2009
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Title
Measuring the effect of enhanced cleaning in a UK hospital: a prospective cross-over study
Published in
BMC Medicine, June 2009
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-7-28
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Authors

Stephanie J Dancer, Liza F White, Jim Lamb, E Kirsty Girvan, Chris Robertson

Abstract

Increasing hospital-acquired infections have generated much attention over the last decade. There is evidence that hygienic cleaning has a role in the control of hospital-acquired infections. This study aimed to evaluate the potential impact of one additional cleaner by using microbiological standards based on aerobic colony counts and the presence of Staphylococcus aureus including meticillin-resistant S. aureus.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 2 1%
United States 2 1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 183 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 18%
Student > Master 27 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 13%
Student > Bachelor 21 11%
Other 17 9%
Other 28 15%
Unknown 38 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 5%
Other 34 18%
Unknown 46 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 27 May 2021.
All research outputs
#1,536,215
of 22,947,506 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,072
of 3,447 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,048
of 114,734 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#3
of 12 outputs
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