Beyond evidence: The complexity of maternity care

Birth

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-269

  Enkin, Murray W ^a,e   Glouberman, Sholom ^b   Groff, Philip ^c   Jadad, Alejandro R ^d   Stern, Anita ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

^c Research and Evaluation   (Canada)

^d Centre for Global eHealth Innovation   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDBIRTH; DELIVERY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LABOR; MATERNAL CARE; OBSTETRIC CARE; PARENTHOOD; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33751218584     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2006.00117.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (26)

1. Porges RE. The response of the New York Obstetrical Society to the report by the New York Academy of Medicine on maternal mortality, 1933-1934. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1985;62:642-649.
2. Cochrane AL. 1931-1971: A critical review with particular reference to the medical profession. In: Teeling-Smith G, Wells N, eds. Medicines for the Year 2000. London: Office of the Health Economics, 1979.
3. Chalmers I, Hetherington J, Newdick M, Mutch L, Grant A, Enkin M, Enkin E, Dickersin K. The Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials: Developing a register of published reports of controlled trials. Control Clin Trials 1986;7:306-324.
4. Chalmers I, Enkin M, Keirse, MJNC., eds. Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
5. Enkin M, Keirse MJNC, Chalmers I. A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
6. Johnston RA, Sidall RS. Is the usual method of preparing patients for delivery beneficial or necessary? Am J Obstet Gynecol 1922;4:645-650.
7. Kantor HI, Rember R, Tabio P, Buchanon R. Value of shaving the pudendal-perineal area in delivery preparation. Obstet Gynecol 1965;25:509-512.
8. Romney ML, Gordon H. Is your enema really necessary? BMJ 1981;282(6272):1269-1271.
9. Hodnett ED, Gates S, Hofmeyr GJ, Sakala C. Continuous support for women during childbirth. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD003766. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.
10. Liggins GC, Howie RN. A controlled trial of antepartum glucocorticoid treatment for prevention of the respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants. Pediatrics 1972;50:515-525.
11. Duley L, Henderson-Smart D. Magnesium sulphate versus diazepam for eclampsia. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD000127. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.
12. Chalmers I, Enkin MW, Keirse MJNC. Establishing systems for preparing and updating systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health care. Milbank Q 1993;71:1-25.
13. Guyatt G. Evidence-based medicine. ACP J Club 1991;114-A-16.
14. Guyatt G, Cairns J, Churchill D, et al. ['Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group'] Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA 1992;268:2420-2425.
15. Chronology of the Cochrane Collaboration. Available at: http://www.cochrane.org/docs/cchronol.htm. Accessed March 3, 2006.
16. Gagnon AJ. Individual or group antenatal education for childbirth/parenthood. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2000, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD002869. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.
17. Hodnett ED, Fredericks S. Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD000198. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.
18. Thacker SB, Stroup D, Chang M. Continuous electronic heart rate monitoring for fetal assessment during labor. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2001, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD000063. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.
19. Grant A, O'Brien N, Joy MT, et al. Cerebral palsy among children born during the Dublin randomized trial of intrapartum monitoring. Lancet 1989:8674:1233-1236.
20. Menticoglou SM, Hall PF. Routine induction of labour at 41 weeks gestation: Nonsensus consensus. BJOG 2002;109:485-491.
21. Kotaska A. Inappropriate use of randomised trials to evaluate complex phenomena: Case study of vaginal breech delivery. BMJ 2004;329:1039-1042.
22. Keirse, MJNC. Evidence-based childbirth only for breech babies? Birth 2002;29:55-59.
23. Glezerman M. Five years to the term breech trial: The rise and fall of a randomized controlled trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006;194:20-25.
24. Grossman J, Mackenzie FJ. The randomized controlled trial: Gold standard, or merely standard? Perspect Biol Med 2005;48:516-534.
25. Glouberman S, Zimmerman B. Complicated and Complex Systems: What Would Successful Reform of Medicare Look Like? Ottawa: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, 2002.
26. Enkin MW, Jadad AR. Using anecdotal information in evidence based health care: Heresy or necessity? Ann Oncol 1998;9:963-966.