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0000-0003-0600-8364
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Deakin University
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-03-2023
DOI: 10.1186/S13104-023-06294-2
Abstract: To describe our experience with using a methodological outcomes measurement search filter (precise and sensitive versions of a filter designed to locate articles that report on psychometric properties of measurement tools) and citation searches to locate psychometric articles for tools that can be used to measure context attributes. To compare the precise filter when used alone and with reference list checking to citation searching according to number of records found, precision, and sensitivity. Using the precise filter, we located 130 of 150 (86.6%) psychometric articles related to 22 of 31 (71.0%) tools that potentially measured an attribute of context. In a subset of six tools, the precise filter alone was more precise than searching with the precise filter combined with reference list searching, or citation searching alone. The precise filter combined with reference list checking was the most sensitive search method examined. Overall, we found the precise filter helpful for our project as it decreased record screening time. For non-patient reported outcomes tools, we had less success with locating psychometric articles using the precise filter because some psychometric articles were not indexed in PubMed. More research that systematically evaluates database searching methods is needed to validate our findings.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AJO.12775
Abstract: The association between an incomplete placenta and postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is well documented however, the significance of ragged or incomplete membranes has not been explored as an independent risk factor for PPH. To explore the association between the completeness of the amniotic and chorionic membranes and the risk of PPH, independent to placental status. 37 176 birth records were retrospectively extracted from the period 1 July, 2008 to 30 June, 2016 from the databases of two public hospitals in Melbourne, Australia. Following application of specific exclusion and inclusion criteria, including non-complete placentas, 5718 records were available for analysis. These records were grouped based on membrane status (complete, ragged or incomplete) and outcome (PPH or no PPH). Primary PPH rates were 14.8% in women with complete membranes, 20.2% in women with ragged membranes and 25.8% in women with incomplete membranes. Following statistical adjustment, the risk ratios for PPH were 1.32 (95% CI: 1.15-1.50) and 1.70 (95% CI: 1.41-2.04) in women with ragged and incomplete membranes, respectively. Both ragged and incomplete membranes were found to be independent risk factors for primary PPH. This previously un-discussed association has the potential to influence clinical practice changes, particularly with regard to the ongoing clinical relevance and use of the terms 'ragged' and 'incomplete' membranes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.MIDW.2022.103420
Abstract: Poor interprofessional collaboration and lack of decision-making with women have been identified as being detrimental to the quality, safety, and experience of maternity care. The aim of the Labouring Together study was to explore childbearing women's preferences for and experiences of collaboration and control over decision-making in maternity care. A sequential, mixed-method, multi-site case study approach was used to explore the perceptions and experiences of childbearing women regarding collaboration and decision-making. Women's preferred role for decision-making compared to the actual experiences, and the influences upon their preferences and experiences of collaboration were explored using semi-structured interviews. An inductive approach was used for qualitative analysis of interviews, and cross-case analyses were conducted using replication logic. Postnatal wards of 1 private and 3 public maternity services in both metropolitan and regional Victoria, Australia. Postnatal women, over the age of 18 years (n=182). Half (48.3%) of the participants indicated a preference for a shared decision-making role and 35% preferred an active role. Only 16.7% participants indicated a preference for a passive role, however 24.4% of women reported experiencing a passive decision-making role during their maternity care. Statistically significant differences were also identified between preferences for and experiences of decision-making among women who chose the private obstetrician model of maternity care compared to the public maternity care system. Negative impacts upon women's autonomy over decision-making included: poor access to midwifery models of care poor access to relational continuity of care poor understanding of the rights of the woman inadequate information for women about the risks and benefits of all proposed interventions and a bureaucratic style of decision-making based upon a dominant discourse of risk avoidance that could ultimately veto the woman's choice. Despite evidence of the benefits for women of having autonomy over decision-making in their own care, fundamental barriers were identified that hindered women's participation in collaboration in maternity care. Shared decision-making with childbearing women is not routine practice in maternity care in Victoria, Australia. Relational continuity of care is imperative to promote the autonomy of childbearing women and an environment conducive to women's active engagement in maternity care and participation in shared decision-making.
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 03-2017
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