Delivery, Obstetric

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • A national update on rates of postpartum haemorrhage and related interventions. 
  • A retrospective cohort study to quantify the contribution of health systems to child survival in Kenya: 1996-2014. 
  • A study of factors influencing surgical cesarean delivery times in an academic tertiary center. 
  • A survey of the management of spinal-induced hypotension for scheduled cesarean delivery. 
  • Abortion, death, and the sanctity of life. 
  • Acupuncture to initiate labor (Acumoms 2): a randomized, sham-controlled clinical trial. 
  • Acute childbirth morbidity: its measurement using hospital charges. 
  • Acute infectious morbidity in multiple gestation. 
  • Anal sphincter injury in women with pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Anal sphincter laceration at vaginal delivery: is this event coded accurately? 
  • Analgesic use after vaginal delivery in women with perineal lacerations: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Anesthetic management and outcomes of parturients with dilated cardiomyopathy in an academic centre. 
  • Antenatal surveillance of fetal growth restriction. 
  • Association of birth mode of delivery with infant faecal microbiota, potential pathobionts, and short chain fatty acids: a longitudinal study over the first year of life. 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Basic science and translational research in female pelvic floor disorders: proceedings of an NIH-sponsored meeting. 
  • Birth order, delivery route, and concordance in the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 from mothers to twins. International Registry of HIV-Exposed Twins. 
  • Breakdown of Perineal Laceration Repair After Vaginal Delivery: A Case-Control Study. 
  • Cancer and pregnancy: the clinician's perspective. 
  • Cervical ripening with foley balloon plus fixed versus incremental low-dose oxytocin: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Cesarean delivery on maternal request: maternal and neonatal outcomes. 
  • Cesarean delivery: a reconsideration of terminology. 
  • Change in urethral sphincter neuromuscular function during pregnancy persists after delivery. 
  • Changing Patterns and Factors Associated With Mode of Delivery Among Pregnant Women With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the United States. 
  • Characterization of banked umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cells and lymphocyte subsets and correlation with ethnicity, birth weight, sex, and type of delivery: a Cord Blood Transplantation (COBLT) Study report. 
  • Clinical prediction is at the heart of preventing birth trauma and pelvic floor disorders for individual women. 
  • Comparative analysis of normal and growth-retarded placentas with phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. 
  • Complications and Route of Delivery in a Large Cohort Study of HIV-1-Infected Women-IMPAACT P1025. 
  • Consumer protection and the HMO backlash: are HMOs to blame for drive-through deliveries? 
  • Contemporary Understanding of Ebola and Zika Virus in Pregnancy. 
  • Current applications of big data in obstetric anesthesiology. 
  • Day-and-Night Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery in a Broad Population of Pregnant Women With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial. 
  • Determinants of women's dissatisfaction with anaesthesia care in labour and delivery. 
  • Diagnosis and Management of VTE in Pregnancy. 
  • Does cesarean delivery impact infant weight gain and adiposity over the first year of life? 
  • Does epidural analgesia cause dystocia? 
  • Dramatic increase of Cesarean deliveries in the midst of health reforms in rural China. 
  • Duration of ruptured membranes and vertical transmission of HIV-1: a meta-analysis from 15 prospective cohort studies. 
  • Education Program Regarding Labor Epidurals Increases Utilization by Hispanic Medicaid Beneficiaries: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Elective primary cesarean delivery: attitudes of urogynecology and maternal-fetal medicine specialists. 
  • Elevated concentration of secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor in the cervical mucus before delivery. 
  • Enterovirus D68 Infection in an Adult. 
  • Establishing Obstetric Anesthesiology Practice Guidelines in the Republic of Armenia: A Global Health Collaboration. 
  • Factors associated with the change in prevalence of cardiomyopathy at delivery in the period 2000-2009: a population-based prevalence study. 
  • Fecal and urinary incontinence in primiparous women. 
  • Gastroschisis: the effect of labor and ruptured membranes on neonatal outcome. 
  • HIV and pregnancy: considerations for nursing practice. 
  • Hepatitis C in pregnancy. 
  • Hepatitis C in pregnancy: screening, treatment, and management. 
  • Heterogeneity in health seeking behaviour for treatment, prevention and urgent care in four districts in western Kenya. 
  • Impact of alternative reimbursement strategies in the new cooperative medical scheme on caesarean delivery rates: a mixed-method study in rural China. 
  • Incidence and Predictors of Anal Incontinence After Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury in Primiparous Women. 
  • Induction of labor with oral prostaglandin E2. 
  • Inflammation and glucose intolerance: a prospective study of gestational diabetes mellitus. 
  • International consensus and practical guidelines on the gynecologic and obstetric management of female patients with hereditary angioedema caused by C1 inhibitor deficiency. 
  • Is there an Association between Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Prediction and Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury? 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices in safe motherhood care among obstetric providers in Bugesera, Rwanda. 
  • Labor prediction based on the expression patterns of multiple genes related to cervical maturation in human term pregnancy. 
  • Levator ani abnormality 6 weeks after delivery persists at 6 months. 
  • Levator ani denervation and reinnervation 6 months after childbirth. 
  • Local anesthetics and mode of delivery: bupivacaine versus ropivacaine versus levobupivacaine. 
  • Management of preterm labor. 
  • Maternal Morbidity After Previable Prelabor Rupture of Membranes. 
  • Maternal Sense of Control During Childbirth and Infant Feeding Method. 
  • Maternal cultural practices for neonates' care in upper Egypt. 
  • Maternal near miss and mortality due to postpartum infection: a cross-sectional analysis from Rwanda. 
  • Maternal near miss and mortality in a tertiary care hospital in Rwanda. 
  • Maternal obesity and major intraoperative complications during cesarean delivery. 
  • Maternal sepsis mortality and morbidity during hospitalization for delivery: temporal trends and independent associations for severe sepsis. 
  • Maternal serum interleukin-6 levels predict impending funisitis in preterm premature rupture of membranes after completion of antibiotics. 
  • Measuring handoff quality in labor and delivery: development, validation, and application of the Coordination of Handoff Effectiveness Questionnaire (CHEQ). 
  • Measuring the impact of a quality improvement collaboration to decrease maternal mortality in a Ghanaian regional hospital. 
  • Medical and infectious complications associated with pyelonephritis among pregnant women at delivery. 
  • Medical and obstetric complications among pregnant women with cystic fibrosis. 
  • Mode of delivery and infant respiratory morbidity among infants born to HIV-1-infected women. 
  • Neonatal Outcomes Associated with Noncephalic Presentation at Delivery in Preterm Birth. 
  • Neonatal outcomes associated with planned vaginal versus planned primary cesarean delivery. 
  • Neuropathic injury to the levator ani occurs in 1 in 4 primiparous women. 
  • New persistent opioid use after acute opioid prescribing in pregnancy: a nationwide analysis. 
  • Non-immune hydrops after 20 weeks' gestation: review of 10 years' experience with suggestions for management. 
  • Obesity and mode of delivery in primigravid and multigravid women. 
  • Obstetric Anesthesia and Heart Disease: Practical Clinical Considerations. 
  • Obstetric management of a fetus with nonlethal osteogenesis imperfecta. 
  • Omphalocele: clinical outcomes in cases with normal karyotypes. 
  • Optimizing the amount of simulation training used to teach vaginal delivery skills to medical students. 
  • Outcome of twin, triplet, and quadruplet in vitro fertilization pregnancies: the Norfolk experience. 
  • Pay-for-performance and the Millennium Development Goals. 
  • Pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Perinatal screening for group B streptococci: cost-benefit analysis of rapid polymerase chain reaction. 
  • Peripartum considerations for women with cardiac disease. 
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Severe Maternal Morbidity. 
  • Postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: synthesis of the evidence on how best to deliver the news. 
  • Predictors of failed trial of labor among women with an extremely obese body mass index. 
  • Predictors of likelihood of speaking up about safety concerns in labour and delivery. 
  • Pregnancy and thrombotic risk. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Prepartum, postpartum, and chronic depression effects on newborns. 
  • Prevalence and County-Level Distribution of Births in Catholic Hospitals in the US in 2020. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of giving birth in health facilities in Bugesera District, Rwanda. 
  • Protection of neonatal macaques against experimental SHIV infection by human neutralizing monoclonal antibodies. 
  • Refining Angular Pregnancy Diagnosis in the First Trimester: A Case Series of Expectant Management. 
  • Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. 
  • Risk factors for fecal and urinary incontinence after childbirth: the childbirth and pelvic symptoms study. 
  • Risk of obstetric anal sphincter injuries at the time of admission for delivery: A clinical prediction model. 
  • SMFM Fetal Anomalies Consult Series #4: Genitourinary anomalies. 
  • Selective management of abruptio placentae: a prospective study. 
  • Shock of birth. Evaluation of neurologic status of term newborn in the first 48 hours of life. 
  • Spontaneously changing gravid cervix: clinical implications and prognostic features. 
  • Textbook recommendations for preventing and treating perineal injury at vaginal delivery. 
  • The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Coronavirus Disease 2019 Registry: An Analysis of Outcomes Among Pregnant Women Delivering During the Initial Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Outbreak in the United States. 
  • The case for careful examination of the placenta. Helpful information from the delivery room. 
  • The effect of second-stage pushing and body mass index on postdural puncture headache. 
  • The impact of occiput posterior fetal head position on the risk of anal sphincter injury in forceps-assisted vaginal deliveries. 
  • The natural history of pelvic vein thrombosis: the natural history of involution? 
  • The third delay: understanding waiting time for obstetric referrals at a large regional hospital in Ghana. 
  • Time trends in management of HIV-positive pregnant women in Northern Tanzania: A registry-based study. 
  • Toward elimination of perinatal HIV transmission: New Jersey hospital barriers to rapid HIV testing in labor and delivery, 2005. 
  • Tranexamic Acid for Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Update on Management and Clinical Outcomes. 
  • Trends in interventions to reduce perinatal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transmission in North Carolina. 
  • Ultrasound of the postpartum uterus. Prediction of retained placental tissue. 
  • Unresolved issues in diagnosis and management of inherited bleeding disorders in the perinatal period: a White Paper of the Perinatal Task Force of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the National Hemophilia Foundation, USA. 
  • Use of prophylactic antibiotics in women with previable prelabor rupture of membranes. 
  • Vaginal delivery from the persistent occiput posterior position. Influence on maternal and neonatal morbidity. 
  • Vaginal delivery is associated with occult disruption of the anal sphincter mechanism. 
  • Variation in caregiver perceptions of teamwork climate in labor and delivery units. 
  • Variation in the postpartum hemorrhage rate in a clinical trial of oral misoprostol. 
  • Where do poor women in developing countries give birth? A multi-country analysis of demographic and health survey data. 
  • Women and girls with haemophilia: Lessons learned. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics