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| Title |
Nonurgent patients in emergency departments: rational or irresponsible consumers? Perceptions of professionals and patients
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-5-525 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anne-Claire Durand, Sylvie Palazzolo, Nicolas Tanti-Hardouin, Patrick Gerbeaux, Roland Sambuc, Stéphanie Gentile |
| Abstract |
For several decades, overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) has been intensifying due to the increased number of patients seeking care in EDs. Demand growth is partly due to misuse of EDs by patients who seek care for nonurgent problems. This study explores the reasons why people with nonurgent complaints choose to come to EDs, and how ED health professionals perceive the phenomenon of "nonurgency". |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 202 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 197 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 41 | 20% |
| Researcher | 22 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 9% |
| Other | 44 | 22% |
| Unknown | 39 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 69 | 34% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 31 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 32 | 16% |
| Unknown | 45 | 22% |
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 14 September 2014.
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#7,951,048
of 24,810,360 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,249
of 4,463 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#57,046
of 178,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#30
of 94 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,810,360 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,463 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 71% of its peers.
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