Caroline Homer

Clinical guidelines for caring for women with COVID-19 during pregnancy, childbirth and the immediate postpartum period

Pollyanna Pavlidis, Katherine Eddy, Laura Phung, Elise Farrington, Mairead Connolly, Rudy Lopes, Alyce N Wilson, Caroline SE Homer, Joshua P Vogel

Journal article  |  2021  |  WOMEN AND BIRTH

BACKGROUND: The spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March ..

Caring for the carers: Ensuring the provision of quality maternity care during a global pandemic

Alyce N Wilson, Claudia Ravaldi, Michelle JL Scoullar, Joshua P Vogel, Rebecca A Szabo, Jane RW Fisher, Caroline SE Homer

Journal article  |  2021  |  WOMEN AND BIRTH

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting health systems worldwide. Maternity care providers must continue their core business in caring ..

Perinatal death audit and classification of stillbirths in two provinces in Papua New Guinea: A retrospective analysis.

Lisa M Vallely, Rachel Smith, John W Bolnga, Delly Babona, Michaela A Riddell, Alice Mengi, Lucy Au, Cherolyn Polomon, Joshua P Vogel, William S Pomat, Andrew J Vallely, Caroline SE Homer

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Gynaecol Obstet

OBJECTIVE: To undertake a retrospective perinatal death audit and assessment of avoidable factors associated with stillbirths amon..

Counting stillbirths and COVID 19-there has never been a more urgent time

Caroline SE Homer, Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Neelam Aggarwal, Joseph Akuze, Delly Babona, Hannah Blencowe, John Bolgna, Richard Chawana, Aliki Christou, Miranda Davies-Tuck, Rakhi Dandona, Sanne Gordijn, Adrienne Gordon, Rafat Jan, Fleurisca Korteweg, Salome Maswime, Margaret M Murphy, Paula Quigley, Claire Storey, Lisa M Vallely, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH

Assessing the quality of antenatal corticosteroids in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Euodia Mosoro, Alyce N Wilson, Caroline SE Homer, Joshua P Vogel

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the administration of intramuscular antenatal corticosteroids to women ..

Clinical care of pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19: Living recommendations from the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Joshua P Vogel, Britta Tendal, Michelle Giles, Clare Whitehead, Wendy Burton, Samantha Chakraborty, Saskia Cheyne, Teena Downton, David Fraile Navarro, Glenda Gleeson, Adrienne Gordon, Jenny Hunt, Jackie Kitschke, Steven McDonald, Nolan McDonnell, Philippa Middleton, Tanya Millard, Melissa Murano, Jeremy Oats, Rhiannon Tate, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY

To date, 18 living recommendations for the clinical care of pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19 have been issued by the Na..

Usability, acceptability, and feasibility of the World Health Organization Labour Care Guide: A mixed-methods, multicountry evaluation

Joshua P Vogel, Liz Comrie-Thomson, Veronica Pingray, Luis Gadama, Hadiza Galadanci, Shivaprasad Goudar, Rose Laisser, Tina Lavender, David Lissauer, Sujata Misra, Yeshita Pujar, Zahida P Qureshi, Taiwo Amole, Mabel Berrueta, Faisal Dankishiya, George Gwako, Caroline SE Homer, Jonathan Jobanputra, Sam Meja, Carolina Nigri, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  BIRTH-ISSUES IN PERINATAL CARE

INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organization's (WHO) Labour Care Guide (LCG) is a "next-generation" partograph based on WHO's lates..

Implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement initiative to reduce late gestation stillbirths in Australia: Safer Baby Bundle study protocol

CJ Andrews, D Ellwood, PF Middleton, A Gordon, M Nicholl, CSE Homer, J Morris, G Gardener, M Coory, M Davies-Tuck, FM Boyle, E Callander, A Bauman, VJ Flenady

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH

BACKGROUND: In 2015, the stillbirth rate after 28 weeks (late gestation) in Australia was 35% higher than countries with the lowes..

Ending malnutrition in all its forms requires scaling up proven nutrition interventions and much more: a 129-country analysis

Nick Scott, Dominic Delport, Samuel Hainsworth, Ruth Pearson, Christopher Morgan, Shan Huang, Jonathan K Akuoku, Ellen Piwoz, Meera Shekar, Carol Levin, Mike Toole, Caroline SE Homer

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.2 calls for an end to all forms of malnutrition, with 2025 targets of a 40% reduc..

Stillbirth in Australia 1: The road to now: Two decades of stillbirth research and advocacy in Australia

Vicki J Flenady, Philippa Middleton, Euan M Wallace, Jonathan Morris, Adrienne Gordon, Frances M Boyle, Caroline SE Homer, Sarah Henry, Leigh Brezler, Aleena M Wojcieszek, Miranda Davies-Tuck, Michael Coory, Emily Callander, Sailesh Kumar, Vicki Clifton, Susannah H Leisher, Hannah Blencowe, Madeline Forbes, Jessica Sexton, David A Ellwood

Journal article  |  2020  |  WOMEN AND BIRTH

Stillbirth is a major public health problem with an enormous mortality burden and psychosocial impact on parents, families and the..