Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
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
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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".
May 19, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Many readers of this blog follow our Understanding Research series developed by our very own Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE. Here's another learning resource for those interested in deepening their understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based healthcare.Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare, a
April 27, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the leading nonprofit organization working to accelerate change in healthcare, has been in the news this month because its CEO, Donald Berwick, was recently nominated to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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 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 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
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