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| Title |
Home birth attendants in low income countries: who are they and what do they do?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2393-12-34 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ana Garces, Elizabeth M McClure, Elwyn Chomba, Archana Patel, Omrana Pasha, Antoinette Tshefu, Fabian Esamai, Shivaprasad Goudar, Adrien Lokangaka, K Michael Hambidge, Linda L Wright, Marion Koso-Thomas, Carl Bose, Waldemar A Carlo, Edward A Liechty, Patricia L Hibberd, Sherri Bucher, Ryan Whitworth, Robert L Goldenberg |
| Abstract |
Nearly half the world's babies are born at home. We sought to evaluate the training, knowledge, skills, and access to medical equipment and testing for home birth attendants across 7 international sites. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| Italy | 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 179 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 172 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 41 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 14% |
| Researcher | 24 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 30 | 17% |
| Unknown | 31 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 60 | 34% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 28 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 26 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Psychology | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 15 | 8% |
| Unknown | 40 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 26 March 2018.
All research outputs
#5,416,980
of 22,665,794 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#1,364
of 4,150 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,379
of 163,891 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#9
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,665,794 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 76th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,150 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 33 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.