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Membrane sweeping for induction of labour

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2005
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Citations

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Title
Membrane sweeping for induction of labour
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2005
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000451.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Michel Boulvain, Catalin M Stan, Olivier Irion

Abstract

Sweeping of the membranes, also named stripping of the membranes, is a relatively simple technique usually performed without admission to hospital. During vaginal examination, the clinician's finger is introduced into the cervical os. Then, the inferior pole of the membranes is detached from the lower uterine segment by a circular movement of the examining finger. This intervention has the potential to initiate labour by increasing local production of prostaglandins and, thus, reduce pregnancy duration or pre-empt formal induction of labour with either oxytocin, prostaglandins or amniotomy. This is one of a series of reviews of methods of cervical ripening and labour induction using standardised methodology.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 127 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 22%
Student > Master 21 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Researcher 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 27 21%
Unknown 24 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 67 52%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 14%
Engineering 5 4%
Social Sciences 5 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 25 19%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 2019.
All research outputs
#1,879,561
of 22,713,403 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#4,179
of 12,313 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,699
of 141,212 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#7
of 35 outputs
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