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The purple line as a measure of labourprogress: a longitudinal study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2010
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Title
The purple line as a measure of labourprogress: a longitudinal study
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2393-10-54
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Authors

Ashley Shepherd, Helen Cheyne, Susan Kennedy, Colette McIntosh, Maggie Styles, Catherine Niven

Abstract

Vaginal examination (VE) and assessment of the cervix is currently considered to be the gold standard for assessment of labour progress. It is however inherently imprecise with studies indicating an overall accuracy for determining the diameter of the cervix at between 48-56%. Furthermore, VEs can be unpleasant, intrusive and embarrassing for women, and are associated with the risk of introducing infection. In light of increasing concern world wide about the use of routine interventions in labour it may be time to consider alternative, less intrusive means of assessing progress in labour. The presence of a purple line during labour, seen to rise from the anal margin and extend between the buttocks as labour progresses has been reported. The study described in this paper aimed to assess in what percentage of women in labour a purple line was present, clear and measurable and to determine if any relationship existed between the length of the purple line and cervical dilatation and/or station of the fetal head.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Unknown 99 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 32 32%
Student > Postgraduate 11 11%
Student > Master 10 10%
Other 10 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 22 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 34 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 30 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Engineering 3 3%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 25 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. 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 22 March 2022.
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#495,308
of 24,558,777 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#72
of 4,584 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,055
of 89,128 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#2
of 14 outputs
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