Patient experiences of an intensive care Liaison Nurse support service.

Objectives: To illuminate patients' experiences of being a part of an liaison nurse support service focused on supporting recently transferred intensive care unit patients.

Research Methodology/design: A qualitative inductive descriptive design including in-depth interviews was chosen.

Setting: A project including an liaison nurse support service-intervention was undertaken during a 16-week period at a University hospital in Sweden.

How to identify twins at low risk of spontaneous preterm delivery.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate transvaginal sonographic assessment of cervical length at 23 weeks as a screening test for spontaneous preterm delivery in order to define a cut-off value that could be used to select twin pregnancies at low risk of spontaneous preterm delivery.

Methods: In a prospective multicenter study of 383 twin pregnancies included before 14 + 6 weeks a cervical scan with measurement of the cervical length was performed at 23 weeks' gestation. The results were blinded for the clinicians if the cervical length was > or = 15 mm.