The future of midwifery care and education in Belgium: A discussion paper.

Background: Advanced education of midwives acting during the first 1000 days in life is key in optimum care provision for intergenerational health and wellbeing.

Aim: This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the current context of midwifery care and (inter)national trends in midwifery education. Gaps for optimizing midwifery education in Belgium are defined.

Identifying anticipated challenges when implementing group care: Context-analyses across seven countries to develop an anticipated challenges framework.

Problem: Despite increasing interest in Group Care worldwide, implementation is challenging.

Background: Group Care is an evidence-based perinatal care model including three core components: health assessment, interactive learning, and community building. It has several advantages for service users and providers compared to individual perinatal care.

Implementing group care in Dutch and Surinamese maternity and child care services: the vital importance of addressing outer context barriers.

Background: By addressing physical and psychosocial needs, group care (GC) improves health-related behaviours, peer support, parent-provider interactions and may improve birth outcomes. Hence, global implementation of GC is encouraged. Context analyses prior to implementation are vital to elucidate which local factors may support or hinder implementation.

Core outcome Set for Cardio-oncology (COS-CO): development of a set of outcomes for the cardiovascular assessment and monitoring of cancer patients and survivors.

Aims: There is an increasing awareness of the evidence-based selection of outcomes to be measured in clinical trials and clinical practice. Currently, there is no core outcome set (COS) for cardio-oncology, which may hinder the (inter)national comparison of the effectiveness of research and the quality of cardio-oncology care. The aim of this study is to develop a standard and pragmatic patient-centred outcome set to assess and monitor cancer patients and survivors at risk of or with cardiovascular diseases.

Non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention of pain during endotracheal suctioning in ventilated neonates.

Background: Pain, when treated inadequately, puts preterm infants at a greater risk of developing clinical and behavioural sequelae because of their immature pain system. Preterm infants in need of intensive care are repeatedly and persistently exposed to noxious stimuli, and this happens during a critical window of their brain development with peak rates of brain growth, exuberant synaptogenesis and the developmental regulation of specific receptor populations. Nearly two-thirds of infants born at less than 29 weeks' gestation require mechanical ventilation for some duration during the newborn period.