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Reasons for performing a caesarean section in public hospitals in rural Bangladesh

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2014
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Title
Reasons for performing a caesarean section in public hospitals in rural Bangladesh
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2393-14-130
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Mamuda Aminu, Bettina Utz, Abdul Halim, Nynke van den Broek

Abstract

It is estimated that 18.5 million Caesarean Sections (CS) are conducted annually worldwide and about one-third of them are done without medical indications and described as "unnecessary". Although developed countries account for most of the rise in the trend of unnecessary CS, more studies report a similar trend in developing countries, putting a strain on existing but limited healthcare resources, jeopardizing families' financial security and presenting a barrier to equitable universal coverage. We examined indications for CS in public hospitals of one district in Bangladesh and explored factors influencing decision to perform the procedure.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 176 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 9%
Student > Bachelor 17 9%
Researcher 15 8%
Student > Postgraduate 14 8%
Other 36 20%
Unknown 50 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 54 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 29 16%
Social Sciences 16 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 18 10%
Unknown 55 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 29 January 2016.
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#3,097,662
of 24,567,524 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#846
of 4,586 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,387
of 231,079 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#24
of 86 outputs
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