Outcomes of care in birth centers: demonstration of a durable model.

Introduction: The safety and effectiveness of birth center care have been demonstrated in previous studies, including the National Birth Center Study and the San Diego Birth Center Study. This study examines outcomes of birth center care in the present maternity care environment.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study of women receiving care in 79 midwifery-led birth centers in 33 US states from 2007 to 2010.

Familiarity and face processing.

The results of three experiments explore the role of familiarity in face processing. Using the complete-over-part advantage (Experiment 1) and the chimeric faces task (Experiment 2), the results revealed evidence for what may be termed "holistic processing" of unfamiliar, newly learned, and famous faces. Notably, the extent of holistic processing on both tasks was not moderated by the familiarity of the stimuli.

Exploring the influence of students' attributions for success on their self-regulation in pathophysiology.

Pathophysiology is a difficult course both for students to take and for instructors to teach. However, little research has explored learner characteristics that teachers may address through targeted instruction to make both the teaching and learning experience better. This study examined the influence of students' causal attributions for success on their self-regulated learning, which is strongly associated with positive learning outcomes.

It's not my fault: understanding nursing students' causal attributions in Pathophysiology.

Pathophysiology is a difficult subject matter for many nursing students. This course is also critical for safe clinical practice. However, little research has explored what variables may influence nursing students' success in this course.

First birth cesarean and risk of antepartum fetal death in a subsequent pregnancy.

Introduction: To examine the relationship between first birth by cesarean and antepartum fetal death in a subsequent pregnancy in a large, hospital-based population.

Methods: Data for this retrospective cohort study were taken from a database of all women who gave birth at Brigham and Women's Hospital during 4 waves of data collection beginning in 1994 and ending in 2002. We calculated the risk of antepartum fetal death in the subsequent pregnancy for women whose first birth was by cesarean compared to women with a vaginal first birth.

Maternal temperature elevation and occiput posterior position at birth among low-risk women receiving epidural analgesia.

Introduction: To evaluate the relationship between maternal temperature elevation and occiput posterior position at birth as well as the association of fetal head position and temperature elevation on method of birth among women receiving epidural analgesia.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Fetal Orientation during Childbirth by Ultrasound Study (FOCUS), which used serial ultrasounds to evaluate the effect of epidural anesthesia on fetal position at birth in low-risk women. The current analysis was limited to the 1428 study participants who received epidural analgesia.

Making heads turn: the effect of familiarity and stimulus rotation on a gender-classification task.

Recent work has demonstrated that facial familiarity can moderate the influence of inversion when completing a configural processing task. Here, we examine whether familiarity interacts with intermediate angles of orientation in the same way that it interacts with inversion. Participants were asked to make a gender classification to familiar and unfamiliar faces shown at seven angles of orientation.