Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
April 25, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
If you haven't heard, the Joint Commission, the organization that accredits U.S. hospitals, has recently rolled out a bundle of perinatal quality measures. These measures are designed for hospitals to track and improve their performance on indicators of perinatal quality, including the proportion of
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April 24, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Our Consider the Source series offers an inside look at research from the researchers themselves. In this installment, my guest is a prominent midwife-researcher who was the lead investigator on The National Birth Center Study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researched and wrote
April 21, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
As I mentioned the other day, this week is my one-year blogiversary. Like many bloggers, I look back on my first year and realize that I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I clicked publish to submit that first post. I didnt know how much time and mental energy it would take, how
April 18, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Note: If this post looks familiar, then thank you for being one of my dedicated readers who has followed me from the very beginning. Yes, this is a repost of my very first blog postand this week marks the first anniversary of Science & Sensibility! Happy blog-aversary to us! Later this week, Ill
April 17, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Since it has been a while since weve had any articles in this series, you may want to refresh your memory by rereading the first and second installments in the Becoming a Critical Reader series. I promise it wont be so long of a gap before the rest of them! OK, having reviewed and identified yo
April 10, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
I kicked off this blog carnival with a post titled, Six Reasons I *Heart* Qualitative Research. I had been wanting to write a post about qualitative research for a while, and the topic of the second stage of labor was the perfect opportunity, since theres so much great qualitative research on
April 07, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Just a few weeks before her death last year, Karen Kilson, a beloved local doula and childbirth educator, sent me this email: She didnt hear back from me, because it was one of too many emails I let sit in my inbox until I had the time to write a coherent response. And in the meantime she passed
April 03, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
It sounded like an April Fools joke, except the story broke two days early. Doctors in North Carolina induced and ultimately performed a cesarean on a woman who wasnt pregnant. The case happened in 2008 but we all learned about it this week because the North Carolina Medical Board finished their
March 28, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
First, a confession: I am no expert in qualitative research. I read a lot of it, and I understand the basic principles, but Ive never taken a course to learn the specific methodologies. I know enough to know when Im looking at good quality qualitative research, to have a few favorite qualitative
March 10, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The NIH press release about the VBAC Consensus Meeting includes only a single instance of the phrase uterine rupture. Having spent 2 1/2 days watching the streaming webcast of the event, my strong sense is that this was by design. During the expert testimony, we heard over and over again that
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