Welcome to the February 2008 issue.
In this issue:
WOMBAT WORKSHOPS
March 2008
Women's and babies’ health and wellbeing - improving outcomes.
Saturday 15th March, 10 am - 4 pm.
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.
To register your interest (essential) please contact:
Claire Parker on: +61 8 9340 1369;
cparker@obsgyn.uwa.edu.au
or Jo Blacker on: +61 89340 7003;
joanne.blacker@health.wa.gov.au
or Rebecca Tooher on: +61 8 8161 7660;
rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
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
visit this page, 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.
IMPACT ABSTRACT DEADLINE
REMINDER
Abstracts are due on the Friday 29 Feb 2008.
Please note: Oral presentations are 20 minutes total duration with 10
minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Computer
projection facilities will be available at all sessions and are the
preferred format.
The abstract format for oral or poster presentations should be in 11
point, Arial font and fit on a single A4 pages with margins of 2cm on
all edges, single spaced and fully justified.
Please submit short abstracts for inclusion in conference material to
klevett@med.usyd.edu.au
and madeleine.elder@mater.org.au
For further information & registration details visit:
http://www.psanzimpact.org
PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Group
(PMG) meeting and Australia & New Zealand Stillbirth Alliance (ANZSA)
WORKSHOP.
Getting Guidelines Into Practice: Using The PSANZ Perinatal Mortality
Audit Guidelines Effectively.
April 18 and 19.
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, Gold Coast.
For further information:
www.acnn.org.au
Perinatal Society of Australia
and New Zealand Annual Congress "Celebrating 25 years: Reflections and
Projections"
April 20 – 23, Gold Coast.
For more information:
www.psanz08.eventplanners.com.au
15th Congress of FAOPS
(Federation of Asia and Oceanic Perinatal Societies)
20-24 May 2008 Nagoya, Japan
Abstracts from Australian registrants extended to 29 Feb 2008.
Abstracts of 200 words, single spaced to be sent to:
faops2008@sunpla-mcv.com
For further information:
http://faops15.umin.jp
28th International Confederation
of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress
June 1-5, 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, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
For more information:
http://www.fnps-society.org
Other related
conferences and meetings
Involving People in Research
Symposium
March 5 – 6, Perth.
For further information:
www.sph.uwa.edu.au/go/sph/involvingpeopleinresearch
Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group Seminar
The Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group invites Health
Knowledge Network members to a seminar entitled: What to do when the
evidence tells you something you don't want to know?
Developing a tool to assist with examining and translating evidence to
practice and policy
Level 1 seminar room, Department of
Human Services, 50 Lonsdale St, Melbourne 9.30am to 1.00pm Friday 28
March 2008. RSVP by Monday 17 March 2008 to Nerolie Powell via email
at nerolie.powell@dhs.vic.gov.au
or by telephone on (03) 9096 6176.
For more information on speakers and content of the seminar please go
to the Health Knowledge Network website:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cochrane/HKN/HKNindex.html
Australasian Cochrane Symposium
May 22 - 23, 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.
For further information:
http://www.cochrane.org.au
General Practice & Primary Health Care Research Conference
June 4-6, Hobart.
Abstracts close 22 Feb 2008.
For further information:
www.phcris.org.au/conference/2008/?promoid=131
What’s new on the WOMBAT
website?
All the Maternal and Neonatal RCTs for Australian centres are
regularly updated and can be found under the heading PERINATAL TRIALS
on the WOMBAT homepage.
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.
Trials
requiring more centres & more recruits:
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 visit
http://www.health.adelaide.edu.au/og/research/mpctu.html or
email twins@adelaide.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
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
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
Trial News
*New trials*
A pregnancy intervention to reduce postprandial glucose excursions in
the primary prevention of paediatric obesity (CHOPP)
ISRCTN10344179
Currently recruiting
Heparin for the Prevention of complications related to placental
Insufficiency: the HEPRIN randomized controlled trial
Currently recruiting
Fetal middle cerebral artery Doppler velocimetry to determine the
timing of second and subsequent fetal blood transfusions in the
treatment of fetal anaemia secondary to red cell alloimmunisation – a
randomised controlled trial
New
publications of Australian perinatal trials
Dunstan JA,
Simmer K, Dixon G, Prescott SL. Cognitive assessment of children at
age 2½ years after maternal fish oil supplementation in pregnancy: a
randomised controlled trial. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
2008;*93*:F45-50
Rees Anne-Marie, Austin Marie-Paule and Parker Gordon B. (2008)
Omega-3 fatty acids as a treatment for perinatal depression:
randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 42:3, 199-205
FAREWELL
This month The WOMBAT Collaboration bids farewell to Karen New,
Queensland Regional Coordinator. Karen has worked tirelessly for both
The WOMBAT Collaboration and the NICS/PEGS Project. Her enthusiasm,
good humour and capacity to work well across the maternal and
perinatal disciplines is inspiring. We wish her well as she continues
with her own research and take this opportunity to thank her for her
excellent contribution to The WOMBAT Collaboration.
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.
