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 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
May 16, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Qualitative research generally describes and sometimes explains. It doesnt try to prove anything. Because qualitative research is more interested in depth, the sample sizes tend to be much smaller. Once youve determined that what you have here is an original piece of quantitative research and you
May 12, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Quantitative research seeks to prove something through experimentation and statistics. Once youve determined that what you have here is an original piece of quantitative research and youve already considered the basic questions here, youre ready for the specific questions
May 09, 2010 | by: Henci Goer, BA
Last August, I argued against ACOGs current position on inducing labor with misoprostol, which is that misoprostol is safe when used appropriately (p. 387), by which ACOG means provided it is used in doses no greater than 50 micrograms in women with an unscarred uterus. In March, I started work
May 05, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
When most people think of reading research, they think of reading an original research study. And there are plenty of those published in journals all the time. Original research generally falls into two main categories: quantitative research and qualititative research. Its really too bad the terms
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
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 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
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
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