| Title |
Prolonged conservative treatment or 'early' surgery in sciatica caused by a lumbar disc herniation: rationale and design of a randomized trial [ISRCT 26872154]
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, February 2005
|
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2474-6-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Wilco C Peul, Hans C van Houwelingen, Wilbert B van der Hout, Ronald Brand, Just AH Eekhof, Joseph ThJ Tans, Ralph TWM Thomeer, Bart W Koes |
| Abstract |
The design of a randomized multicenter trial is presented on the effectiveness of a prolonged conservative treatment strategy compared with surgery in patients with persisting intense sciatica (lumbosacral radicular syndrome). |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 88 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 16% |
| Other | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 22 | 25% |
| Unknown | 14 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 57% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Psychology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 17 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 20 November 2013.
All research outputs
#3,515,537
of 22,747,498 outputs
Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#677
of 4,035 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,101
of 141,118 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,747,498 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 84th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,035 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 141,118 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them