Welcome to the January 2008 issue.
In this issue:
WOMBAT WORKSHOPS
March 2008
Women's and babies health and wellbeing - improving outcomes.
Saturday 15th
March. Agnes Walsh House, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco, WA
Participants will focus on an important question in maternal or
perinatal healthcare. Working in small groups they will examine how this
question could be addressed using the clinical trial research framework.
The workshop will cover important issues in the design and conduct of
clinical trials. Including: getting the question right, determining the
sample size and ethical considerations.
Contact Claire Parker: 08 9340 1369 or email:
cparker@obsgyn.uwa.edu.au
or Rebecca Tooher: 08 8161 7660 or email:
rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
for registration (essential).
April 2008
Designing a protocol for a maternal or perinatal RCT.
Friday April 18 and Saturday morning April 19.
Education Centre,
Gold Coast Hospital,
Little High Street, Southport
For more information, please go to
http://www.wombatcollaboration.net/conferences or contact Rebecca
Tooher:
rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
or phone +61 8
8161 7660
Other workshops, meetings and conferences relevant to maternal and
perinatal health
IMPACT WORKSHOP: Saturday April 19th
(pm) and Sunday 20th (am)
Education Centre,
Gold
Coast
Hospital,
Little High Street, Southport
4
Sessions:
1 & 2: Presentations of trials in the planning stages and trials
currently recruiting requiring new centres and/or recruits;
3: Presentations of trials in the planning stage;
4: Guideline development and getting research into practice.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION: 8 FEB 2008
For further information about the IMPACT Workshop contact Jonathon
Morris (IMPSCT Committee Chair)
jmorris@med.usyd.edu.au or Kate Levett
klevett@med.usyd.edu.au
Registration forms are available on the website:
http://www.psanzimpact.org
PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Group (PMG)
meeting and Australia & New Zealand Stillbirth Alliance (ANZSA) WORKSHOP
April 18 and 19. Getting Guidelines Into Practice: Using The PSANZ
Perinatal Mortality Audit Guidelines Effectively.
Education Centre, Gold Coast Hospital, Little High Street, Southport.
For more information, please go to
http://www.psanzpnmsig.org/ or contact Vicki Flenady:
Vicki.Flenady@mater.org.au
or Anais Gschwind:
anais.gschwind@mater.org.au
Cochrane Work-in: Sunday April 20
(pm)
Education Centre, Gold Coast Hospital, Little High Street, Southport
The work-in provides and opportunity for Cochrane authors to progress
their Cochrane review titles, protocols, and reviews with the support of
experienced reviewers.
For further details please contact Philippa Middleton:
philippa.middleton@adelaide.edu.au or Phone: 08 8161 7612
Australian College
Neonatal Nurses Association Inc Annual Conference “Nurturing Generation
Z” April 19 – 20.
For
further information, please go to:
www.acnn.org.au
Perinatal Society of Australia and
New Zealand Annual Congress “Celebrating 25 years: Reflections and
Projections” April 20 – 23.
For more
information:
www.psanz08.eventplanners.com.au
14th Conference of the International
Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (ISRHML). Jan 31–Feb 5,
Perth. For
more information, please go to
http://www.isrhml.org.umu.se
Australasian Cochrane Symposium 22 -
23 May
2008,
Hobart.
Each year the
Australasian Cochrane Centre hosts a meeting for Australasian
contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. This year, we will be
hosting a Symposium for Australasian review authors in Hobart.
http://www.cochrane.org.au
28th International Confederation of
Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress 1-5 June in Glasgow, UK.
For further
information: www.midwives2008.org
Perinatal Medicine 2008 June 2-4
Harrogate, UK.
Early Bird registration on or before: 28th February 2008. Further
information:
http://www.perinatalmedicine2008.ukevents.org/default.htm
Fetal and Neonatal Physiological
Society 35th Annual Meeting
June 22–25.
Netherlands.
For more information:
http://www.fnps-society.org
Other related
conferences and meetings
Involving People in
Research Symposium March 5 – 6 in Perth. For more information, please
go to:
www.sph.uwa.edu.au/go/sph/involvingpeopleinresearch
General Practice & Primary Health Care Research Conference 4-6 June in
Hobart. Abstracts close 22 Feb 2008. See website for further details:
www.phcris.org.au/conference/2008/?promoid=131
What’s new on the WOMBAT
website?
The list of all the Maternal and Neonatal RCTs for Australian centres
has recently been updated and can be found under the heading PERINATAL
TRIALS on the WOMBAT homepage
www.wombatcollaboration.net. All the trials are listed according to
their current status and are grouped under a classification of Maternal
or Neonatal RCTs. Please let us know if your trial is not listed or if
the information provided is not accurate.
Under RESOURCES FOR TRIALLISTS on the homepage, there is a section
called Maternal and Perinatal Trial Toolkits. These Toolkits include a
range of topics, including:
We welcome feedback on new Toolkits and suggestions for improving the
existing Toolkits. Please contact the WOMBAT Education Officer, Rebecca
Tooher by email:
r.tooher@wombatcollaboration.net
Trials
requiring more centres & more recruits:
BOOST II: Benefits of Oxygen Saturation Targeting Study
If you would like more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
boost2@ctc.usyd.edu.au
PROGRESS Trial: Progesterone after previous preterm birth for the
prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
If you would like more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
progress@adelaide.edu.au
PPROMT Trial: Preterm Pre-Labour Rupture of Membranes Close to Term
Trial
If you would like more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
ppromt@med.usyd.edu.au
TWINS: Timing of Birth at Term – a randomised controlled trial (ACTOBAT)
If you would like more information on becoming involved in this trial
visit perinatal trials page or
http://www.health.adelaide.edu.au/og/research/mpctu.html or email
twins@adelaide.edu.au
Trial News
Congratulations to
all those involved in the PPROMPT RCT. They exceeded their end of year
target of 300 and have achieved 322 recruits by 17 January 2008.
New Australian and perinatal trials (or newly registered trials)
Not yet recruiting
A double-blind
randomised controlled trial of oxytocin bolus plus placebo infusion
versus oxytocin bolus plus oxytocin infusion for the prevention of
uterine atony and post partum haemorrhage at elective caesarean
section ACTRN12607000631404
Self-management
versus usual care for the treatment of mastitis following childbirth
ACTRN12607000438459
Cooling for
perineal pain relief after childbirth: randomised trial
ACTRN12607000557437
Dural puncture
in labour: Intrathecal catheter versus epidural (The ICE Pilot Study)
to prevent the need for epidural blood patch ACTRN12608000009314
A randomized,
double-Blinded, sham-controlled study to evaluate the anti-emetic
efficacy of the pressure right acupressure wristband versus placebo
wristbands ACTRN12607000585426
Follow-up complete
Randomised trial
of dopamine vs dobutamine for treatment of low systemic blood flow in
very preterm infants ACTRN12607000152426
New
publications of Australian perinatal trials
Maternal
Perineal Outcomes
and Maternal Comfort Related to the Application of Perineal Warm Packs
in the Second Stage of Labor: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Dahlen HG, Homer CSE, Cooke M, Upton A, Nunn R, Brodrick B.Birth
2007;34 (4):282-290.
Managing back pain
in pregnancy using a support garment: a randomised trial. Kalus SM,
Kornman LH, Quinlivan JA. BJOG 2008;115:68-75.
Use of a decision
aid for prenatal testing of fetal abnormalities to improve women's
informed decision making: a cluster randomised controlled trial
[ISRCTN22532458]. Nagle C, Gunn J, Bell R, Lewis S, Meiser B, Metcalfe
S, Ukoumunne OC, Halliday J. BJOG 2008;115:339-47
Neonatal
Long-term effects
of caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity.
Schmidt B, Roberts RS, Davis P, Doyle LW, Barrington KJ, Ohlsson A,
Solimano A, Tin W; Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity Trial Group.
N Engl J Med 2007;357(19):1893-1902.
Outcomes at 2 years
of age after repeat doses of antenatal corticosteroids. Crowther CA
Doyle LW,
Haslam RR,
Hiller JE,
Harding JE,
Robinson JS;
ACTORDS Study Group. N Engl J Med 2007;357(12):1179-1189.
Recent
publications of interest
Neonatal
Kirpalani H, Barks
J, Thorlund K, Guyatt G. Cooling for neonatal hypoxic ischemic
encephalopathy: do we have the answer? Pediatrics 2007;120:1126-30
Methodological
paper of interest
Impact of
allocation concealment on conclusions drawn from meta-analyses of
randomized trials.
Pildal J,
Hróbjartsson A,
Jørgensen KJ,
Hilden J,
Altman DG,
Gøtzsche PC. Int J Epidemiol. 2007;36(4):847-57.
Health Knowledge
Network
Health Knowledge
Network (HKN) is a knowledge transfer service of the Cochrane
Consumers and Communication Review Group, La Trobe University. Visit
the new HKN pages for resources and information or register to receive
monthly email Evidence and Resource bulletins.
HKN website:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cochrane/HKN/HKNindex.html
Helen Dilkes email:
hkn@latrobe.edu.au
Further Information
For more information on WOMBAT
initiatives, please contact the WOMBAT Collaboration national
co-ordinator:
p.middleton@WOMBATcollaboration.net
The WOMBAT Collaboration is funded through a NHMRC enabling grant.
