Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
July 09, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
A lot has been said about the new meta-analysis of home birth. (Here is an excellent summary from Jennifer Block.) Canadian physician Michael Klein has been widely quoted as saying that the meta-analysis, a potentially valuable statistical tool, was performed poorly because the researchers included
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July 08, 2010 | by: Tricia Pil
This Latin phrase is familiar to every medical student, taught in all medical schools as a fundamental axiom of patient care (for you fellow Trekkies, akin to the prime directive of non-interference). The general idea is that, when weighing the risks and benefits of a medical intervention for a give
July 06, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
A literature review is one persons attempt to summarize what the literature says about any given topic. Many pieces of original research will have a mini-literature review as a part of the study to help place that study in context, but many times you will come across a literature review published
July 05, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
OK, I'm not making a claim that nursing in public protects against infant mortality (but hey, it's certainly plausible, on the public health level at least.) No, I'm writing about these two topics today because I'm hoping you'll go read my two guest posts, hosted on two of my favorite blogs.
July 04, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
This holiday weekend, which was also the sixth anniversary of my own first home birth, was busy with news of a new meta-analysis (followed by a curious revision of the meta-analysis) of the safety of home birth published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The revised meta-analysis
June 27, 2010 | by: Tricia Pil
Ill be the first to admitI feel a fish out of water on this blog, and am still scratching my head wondering what Amy and I must have been smoking when she invited me, and I agreed, to join Science and Sensibility as a blog contributor. Im not a midwife and, aside from Amy, have never met one. I
June 18, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
...is up! Go check it out at Giving Birth with Confidence. What a PHENOMENAL collection of contributions about the moments, hours, and days after birth. Each of our Blog Carnivals has vastly surpassed my own expectations. I hope you'll agree.
June 15, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
I am impressed and surprisingly moved by this video of a NICU evacuation drill at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Drills like these are so important for patient safety. As the hospital CEO points out in his blog, there is a dearth of literature on NICU evacuations".
June 12, 2010 | by: Jeannette T Crenshaw, DNP, RN, IBCLC, NEA-BC, FAAN, LCCE, FACCE
[Editor's note: This is a guest post from former Lamaze International President, Jeannette Crenshaw. When Jeannette told me about the video she reviews in this post, I knew I wanted to highlight it as part of the Sixth Healthy Birth Blog Carnival. I recall one birth I attended as a midwife, I
June 10, 2010 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, hospital noise has become problematic and researchers, along with some hospital administrators, are starting to listen. From The Boston Globe article: In 2005, a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University led by the engineers
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