Journal article
What are we telling the parents of extremely preterm babies?
RA Boland, PG Davis, JA Dawson, LW Doyle
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12448
Abstract
Background Parent counselling and decision-making regarding the management of preterm labour and birth are influenced by information provided by healthcare professionals regarding potential infant outcomes. Aim The aim of this study was to determine whether perinatal healthcare providers had accurate perceptions of survival and major neurosensory disability rates of very preterm infants born in non-tertiary hospitals ('outborn') and tertiary perinatal centres ('inborn'). Materials and Methods A web-based survey was distributed to midwives, nurses, obstetricians and neonatologists working in non-tertiary and tertiary maternity hospitals, and the perinatal/neonatal emergency transport services..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Funding Acknowledgements
RAB was the recipient of the Felix Meyer Faculty Research Scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD research was also supported with funding from a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute [ID 1060733]. JAD and PGD are funded by the NHMRC: JAD holds an Early Career Fellowship [ID 1059111]; PGD holds a Practitioner Fellowship [ID 1012686].