Research Projects Topic: Labour and delivery

Birthplace follow-on analysis to enhance policy and service delivery decision-making for planned place of birth

Lead: Jennifer Hollowell (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery, Organisation and delivery of maternity and neonatal care
Birthplace in England Research Programme

Lead: Peter Brocklehurst (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery, Organisation and delivery of maternity and neonatal care
CORONIS (International study of caesarean section surgical techniques : the follow-up study)

Lead: Peter Brocklehurst (NPEU)
Topics: Infertility, Labour and delivery
CORONIS Trial - a fractional factorial unmasked randomised controlled trial of caesarean section surgical techniques in developing countries

Lead: Peter Brocklehurst (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery
Enhancing the Safety of Midwifery-Led Births Enquiry (ESMiE): A confidential enquiry of term, intrapartum-related perinatal deaths in births planned in midwifery-led settings in England & WAles

Lead: Jennifer Hollowell (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery
Ethnic differences in women's worries about labour and birth

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery, Socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities, Women's experience of maternity care
EUPHRATES trial - trial of blood collector bag in third stage of labour

Lead: Sophie Alexander (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels)
Topics: Labour and delivery
EUROCAT - European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies - Survey of prenatal diagnosis screening methods across Europe Perinatal screening for birth defects in Europe - a EUROCAT study of the impact of different national policies

Leads: Helen Dolk (University of Ulster) and Patricia Boyd (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery
Evidence to improve the quality and safety of midwifery-led intrapartum care

Lead: Rachel Rowe (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery, Organisation and delivery of maternity and neonatal care, Stillbirth and infant death
Immersion in water for pain relief and the risk of intrapartum transfer among low risk nulliparous women: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study

Lead: Jennifer Hollowell (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery
Impact of maternal age on intrapartum interventions and outcomes: secondary analysis of the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study

Lead: Jennifer Hollowell (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery
Impact of maternal BMI on intrapartum outcomes: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study

Lead: Jennifer Hollowell (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery, Obesity
Informing policy on childbirth choices: the Birthplace Choices project

Leads: Oliver Rivero-Arias (NPEU) and Rachel Rowe (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery
Maternal health and wellbeing in the perinatal period

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Antenatal care, Labour and delivery, Mental health and wellbeing, Women's experience of maternity care
National Maternity Survey 2010: women's experience of maternity care

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Antenatal care, Labour and delivery, Women's experience of maternity care
National survey of women's views and experience of maternity care 2006

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Antenatal care, Labour and delivery, Women's experience of maternity care
Outcome of planned vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) at home

Lead: Jennifer Hollowell (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery
Pre-eclampsia in Hospital: Early Induction or Expectant management (PHOENIX).

Leads: Lucy Chappell (King's College, London) and Andy Shennan (King's College, London)
Topics: Antenatal care, Care of the compromised term infant, Care of the preterm or low birthweight infant, Child health and development, Labour and delivery, Preterm birth, Severe maternal morbidity and mortality, Stillbirth and infant death
Surveillance of fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia

Lead: Marian Knight (NPEU)
Topics: Antenatal care, Care of the compromised term infant, Labour and delivery, Severe maternal morbidity and mortality, Stillbirth and infant death
The Oxford Worries about Labour Scale: maternal concerns about labour and birth

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery, Mental health and wellbeing, Women's experience of maternity care
Transfer from midwifery unit to obstetric unit during labour: rates, process, outcomes and women's experience

Lead: Rachel Rowe (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery, Women's experience of maternity care
UK Midwifery Study System (UKMidSS)

Lead: Rachel Rowe (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery, Obesity, Severe maternal morbidity and mortality, Stillbirth and infant death
UKMidSS Severe Obesity Study

Lead: Rachel Rowe (NPEU)
Topics: Labour and delivery, Obesity
Women's experience of caesarean section: a qualitative study

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery, Women's experience of maternity care
Women's experience of induction of labour

Lead: Maggie Redshaw (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Labour and delivery

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