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| Title |
Surgical management of inguinal hernias at Bugando Medical Centre in northwestern Tanzania: our experiences in a resource-limited setting
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-5-585 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Joseph B Mabula, Phillipo L Chalya |
| Abstract |
Inguinal hernia repair remains the commonest operation performed by general surgeons all over the world. There is paucity of published data on surgical management of inguinal hernias in our environment. This study is intended to describe our own experiences in the surgical management of inguinal hernias and compare our results with that reported in literature. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | 50% |
| Spain | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 150 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 149 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Postgraduate | 30 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 11% |
| Researcher | 16 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 15% |
| Unknown | 38 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 89 | 59% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 2% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 1% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 10 | 7% |
| Unknown | 36 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 30 October 2012.
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#13,296,562
of 22,684,168 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,655
of 4,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#99,810
of 183,393 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#37
of 79 outputs
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