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Welcome to the March 2008 issue.
In this issue:
The
WOMBAT Collaboration appoints new NSW/ACT Regional Coordinator
The WOMBAT Collaboration
extends a warm welcome to Mengjun Zhu, recently appointed regional
coordinator for NSW and ACT.
WOMBAT
WORKSHOPS
STOP PRESS!
Friday April 18 and
Saturday morning April 19 2008.
Designing a protocol for a
maternal or perinatal RCT.
Education Centre, Gold Coast Hospital, Little High Street, Southport.
For
more information
click here or contact Rebecca Tooher on: +61 8 8161 7660;
rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
Women's and babies’ health
and wellbeing - improving outcomes.
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.
Please note: This Perth
workshop has been moved to late May early June (exact dates to be
advised).
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
Other
workshops, meetings and conferences relevant to maternal and perinatal
health
Australian meetings
PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Group
and Australia & New Zealand Stillbirth Alliance WORKSHOP “Perinatal
Death Priorities and Getting Guidelines into Practice: Using the PSANZ
Perinatal Mortality Audit”
Friday 18 April and Saturday 19 April, 2008 Gold Coast, Queensland
For more information and any other queries, please contact Anais.
Email: anais.gschwind@mater.org.au
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.
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 (PSANZ)Annual Congress
"Celebrating 25 years: Reflections and Projections"
April 20 – 23, Gold Coast.
For more information:
www.psanz08.eventplanners.com.au
PSANZ AGM
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 1300 – 1400hrs, Plenary Room, Arena 1B
Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, Queensland
International meetings
28th International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress
June 1-5, Glasgow, UK.
For further information: www.midwives2008.org
Perinatal Medicine 2008
The Executives of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS),
British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM), the Neonatal Society
(NNS) and the Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) would like to invite
its members and colleagues to attend this Joint Conference.
June 2-4 Harrogate, UK.
Further information:
http://www.perinatalmedicine2008.ukevents.org/default.htm
Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society 35th Annual Meeting
June 22–25, Maastricht, Netherlands.
For more information: http://www.fnps-society.org
International Lactation Consultants’ Association (ILCA)/USLCA
Conference and Annual Meeting “One Voice, Uniting the Profession -
Practice, Professionalism, Policy”
July 23-27, 2008 Nevada, USA
For more information: www.ilca.org/conf2008.html
28TH Annual Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP)
Conference, London, England
8-10th September 2008.
For further information: http://www.srip.ac.uk/
European Lactation Consultants' Association (VELB) “A World Wide View
on Breastfeeding”
October 1-3 2008 Austria Center, Vienna, Austria
Information: www.velb.org or
www.ilca.org
2008 International Stillbirth Conference
A joint conference of ISA and WHO hosted by the Norwegian Society of
Perinatal Medicine. Co-hosted by Norwegian SIDS and Stillbirth Society
and Perinatal Research Center, Rikshospitalet University Clinic
November 5-7, Oslo, Norway
Go to: http://www.stillbirthalliance.org/conference/2008/ for more
information and to submit your abstracts electronically (open from
March 15)
Advance notice: 2009
International normal birth research conference in Grange over Sands
June 10-12th 2009 for further information, contact Soo Downe email:
sdowne@UCLAN.AC.UK
Other related courses, seminars and meetings
Complex interventions in public health: design, implementation,
evaluation: A short course
28-30 April 2008, Melbourne.
The course is offered by COMPASS, a research partnership between:
Mother & Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Primary Care
Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of
Melbourne, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group, Murdoch
Childrens Research Institute.
For more information: Mother & Child Health Research, La Trobe
University. Phone 03 8341 8500 or email
mchr@latrobe.edu.au
Registration closes: 16 April 2008
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.
For further information:
www.phcris.org.au/conference/2008/?promoid=131
The National Ethics Application Forms (NEAF): a summary of usage by
Australian perinatal and maternal researchers
According to the NEAF website:
https://www.neaf.gov.au/Default.aspx
“The website NEAF is a web-based tool that has been developed to
assist researchers of all disciplines to complete research ethics
proposals for submission to Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs),
and to assist HRECs to consistently and efficiently assess these
proposals. It has been designed to meet the requirements of relevant
guidelines with the aim of increasing the efficiency and quality of
the ethical review process for all parties involved.”
Australian maternal and perinatal researchers have reported a range of
different responses to the query: “Do you use the NEAF?”
In Queensland and New South Wales, most public hospitals and Uni
Queensland are using NEAF for new (2008) ethics applications. In the
Northern Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania both the NEAF and
institutional specific ethics application forms are currently in use.
Victorian researchers are using the Department of Human Services (DHS)
form and institutional specific ethics forms, with no reported use of
NEAF currently or in the foreseeable future.
In South Australia, maternal and perinatal researchers are using the
NEAF for some new ethics applications.
Researchers report mixed feelings associated with using NEAF – from
‘it saves time’ and ‘it avoids duplication’ through to ‘different
centres require different approaches to completion of the NEAF’ and
the NEAF has ‘lots of problems’.
The website also states: “The Beta version is consistent with the 2007
/National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human /Research. We want the
final version of NEAF 2007 to be built to your needs and will value
your feedback on the Beta version. It is anticipated that the final
version of NEAF 2007 that incorporates user feedback will be available
mid 2008. *Please do not use the test site to develop proposals that
you wish to submit to a HREC”.
For more information about the development of the NEAF:
https://www.neaf.gov.au/Default.aspx
New Research Gaps
Important questions
that need addressing in maternal perinatal trials.
We have used Cochrane reviews to identify gaps in maternal perinatal
research and grouped these into 'umbrella' topics.
To make the issues easier to understand, we have summarised and coded
review findings and the research implications.
Two new research gaps:
Postpartum haemorrhage
3rd Stage of Labour
For more information about other research gaps,
please visit here.
New Maternal RCT
*Skin and Camper’s fascia closure at Caesarean section: a
randomised controlled trial (the CLOSURE trial)*
Currently recruiting
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
Recent publications of Australian maternal and perinatal trials
Davidson A, McCann ME and Morton N. Anesthesia neurotoxicity in
neonates: the need for clinical research. Anesth Analg. 2007;
105:881-2.
Kalus SM, Kornman LH, Quinlivan JA
Managing back pain in pregnancy using a support garment: a randomised
trial. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
2008; 115:68-75.
Crowther CA, Doyle
LW, Haslam RR, Hiller JH, Harding JE, Robinson JS for the ACTORDS
Study Group. Outcomes at 2 years of age following repeat doses of
antenatal corticosteroids. N Engl J Med 2007; 357:1179-89..
Schmidt B, Roberts RS, Davis P, Doyle LW, Barrington KJ, Ohlsson A,
Solimano A, Tin W, for the Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity Trial
Group. Long-term effects of caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity.
N Engl J Med 2007; 357:1893-1902.
Morley CJ, Davis PG,. Doyle LW, Brion LP, Hascoet J-M, Carlin JB for
the COIN Trial Investigators. Nasal CPAP or intubation at birth for
very preterm infants. N Engl J Med 2008; 358: 700-708.
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.
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