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Monitoring performance of sites within multicentre randomised trials: a systematic review of performance metrics (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Large multicentre trials are complex and expensive projects. A key factor for their successful planning and delivery is how well sites meet their targets in recruiting and retaining participants, and in collecting hi... Read More about Monitoring performance of sites within multicentre randomised trials: a systematic review of performance metrics.

Interventionist versus expectant care for severe pre-eclampsia between 24 and 34 weeks' gestation (2018)
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Background: Severe pre‐eclampsia can cause significant mortality and morbidity for both mother and child, particularly when it occurs remote from term, between 24 and 34 weeks' gestation. The only known cure for this disease is delivery. Some obstetr... Read More about Interventionist versus expectant care for severe pre-eclampsia between 24 and 34 weeks' gestation.

Encouraging awareness of fetal movements is harmful (2018)
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Postpartum evaluation of cardiovascular disease risk for women with pregnancies complicated by hypertension (2018)
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Objectives: Postpartum stratification of cardiovascular risk for women with pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia is challenging. Our aim was to identify potential clinical and biomarker predictors of future cardiovascular risk at six weeks postpa... Read More about Postpartum evaluation of cardiovascular disease risk for women with pregnancies complicated by hypertension.

Delivery at term: when, how and why (2018)
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The optimal timing of delivery for the baby is 39 weeks, avoiding the morbidity associated with early term birth and reducing the risk of antepartum stillbirth. There is compelling evidence that among high-risk pregnancies and in settings where ce... Read More about Delivery at term: when, how and why.

Induction of labour at 37 weeks for suspected fetal macrosomia may reduce birth trauma (2017)
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Labour induction near term for women aged 35 or over: an economic evaluation (2017)
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Objective Induction of labour at 39 weeks for nulliparous women aged 35 years and over may prevent stillbirths and does not increase caesarean births, so it may be popular. But the overall costs and benefits of such a policy have not been compared.... Read More about Labour induction near term for women aged 35 or over: an economic evaluation.

Randomized trial of labor induction in women 35 years of age or older (2016)
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BACKGROUND The risk of antepartum stillbirth at term is higher among women 35 years of age or older than among younger women. Labor induction may reduce the risk of stillbirth, but it also may increase the risk of cesarean delivery, which already is... Read More about Randomized trial of labor induction in women 35 years of age or older.

Childbirth experience questionnaire: validating its use in the United Kingdom (2015)
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BACKGROUND: The Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) was developed in Sweden in 2010 and validated in 920 primiparous women. It has not been validated in the United Kingdom (UK). Measuring the impact of an intervention on a woman's childbirth e... Read More about Childbirth experience questionnaire: validating its use in the United Kingdom.

Discrepancies between registration and publication of randomised controlled trials: an observational study (2014)
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Abstract OBJECTIVES: To determine the consistency between information contained in the registration and publication of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). DESIGN: An observational study of RCTs published between May 2011 and May 2012 in the Brit... Read More about Discrepancies between registration and publication of randomised controlled trials: an observational study.

The dangers of the day of birth (2014)
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Induction of labour versus expectant management for nulliparous women over 35 years of age: a multi-centre prospective, randomised controlled trial (2012)
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Background: British women are increasingly delaying childbirth. The proportion giving birth over the age of 35 rose from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2006. Women over this age are at a higher risk of perinatal death, and antepartum stillbirth accounts for 6... Read More about Induction of labour versus expectant management for nulliparous women over 35 years of age: a multi-centre prospective, randomised controlled trial.