A systematic review of interventions to increase the use of smoking cessation services for women who smoke during pregnancy.

Background: Although many pregnant women accept referrals to stop-smoking support, the uptake of appointments often remains low.

Aim: The aim was to review the success of interventions to increase the uptake of external stop-smoking appointments following health professional referrals in pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Scopus and CINAHL were searched in February 2023 for studies with interventions to increase the uptake rates of external stop-smoking appointments among pregnant women who smoke.

Variations in sacral sub-epidermal moisture measurements in hospitalized medical and surgical patients: A longitudinal observational sub-study.

Background: Pressure injury risk assessment tools have several well-known limitations. As a result, new methods of assessing risk are emerging, including the use of sub-epidermal moisture measurement to detect localized edema.

Aims: To assess the daily variation in sacral sub-epidermal moisture measurement over five days and establish if age and prophylactic sacral dressing use influenced these measurements.

Incidence and risk factors for surgical wound complications in women with body mass index >30 kg/m following cesarean delivery: a secondary analysis.

Background: Surgical wound complications are common and occur in between 3% and 12% of obese women after cesarean delivery. An understanding of the risk factors for wound complications may inform potential areas for clinical care improvement.

Objective: This study aimed to identify the incidence and predictors of surgical wound complications in obese women after cesarean delivery.

The effect of sub-epidermal moisture on pressure injury prevention strategies and incidence of pressure injuries: A feasibility pilot randomised controlled trial.

Aim: Sub-epidermal moisture scanning (SEMS) is a novel point-of-care technology that measures localised oedema and detects early tissue damage that may develop into a pressure injury (PI). It provides objective data that may assist PI prevention (PIP) decision making. This study aimed to determine the feasibility of undertaking a definitive randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the effectiveness of SEMS.

Midwives providing woman-centred care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A national qualitative study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused isolation, fear, and impacted on maternal healthcare provision.

Aim: To explore midwives' experiences about how COVID-19 impacted their ability to provide woman-centred care, and what lessons they have learnt as a result of the mandated government and hospital restrictions (such as social distancing) during the care of the woman and her family.

Methods: A qualitative interpretive descriptive study was conducted.

Effect of K-wire Reuse and Drill Mode on Heat Generation in Bone.

Background: We examined the effect of Kirschner wire (K-wire) reuse and use of oscillating mode on heat generation within cortical bone.

Methods: Two trocar-tipped K-wires were drilled through the diaphysis of each of 30 human metacarpals and phalanges: one K-wire was inserted in rotary mode and another in oscillating mode. Each wire was reused once.

Making every birth count: Outcomes of a perinatal mortality audit program.

Background: Stillbirth rates have shown little improvement for two decades in Australia. Perinatal mortality audit is key to prevention, but the literature suggests that implementation is suboptimal.

Aim: To determine the proportion of perinatal deaths which are associated with contributing factors relating to care in Queensland, Australia.

Stillbirth in Australia 1: The road to now: Two decades of stillbirth research and advocacy in Australia.

Stillbirth is a major public health problem with an enormous mortality burden and psychosocial impact on parents, families and the wider community both globally and in Australia. In 2015, Australia's late gestation stillbirth rate was over 30% higher than that of the best-performing countries globally, highlighting the urgent need for action. We present an overview of the foundations which led to the establishment of Australia's NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE) in 2017 and highlight key activities in the following areas: Opportunities to expand and improve collaborations between research teams; Supporting the conduct and development of innovative, high quality, collaborative research that incorporates a strong parent voice; Promoting effective translation of research into health policy and/or practice; and the Regional and global work of the Stillbirth CRE.

"Overwhelmed and out of my depth": Responses from early career midwives in the United Kingdom to the Work, Health and Emotional Lives of Midwives study.

Background: Efforts to resolve the longstanding and growing staffing crisis in midwifery in the United Kingdom have been hampered by very poor retention rates, with early career midwives the most likely to report burnout and intention to leave the profession.

Aims: To establish the key, self-described factors of satisfaction and dissatisfaction at work for early career midwives in the United Kingdom, and suggest appropriate and effective retention strategies.

Methods: Thematic analysis was undertaken on a subset of free text responses from midwives who had been qualified for five years or less, collected as part of the United Kingdom arm of the Work, Health and Emotional Lives of Midwives project.

Midwives in the United Kingdom: Levels of burnout, depression, anxiety and stress and associated predictors.

Objective: The overall study aim was to explore the relationship between the emotional wellbeing of UK midwives and their work environment. Specific research questions were to: assess levels of burnout, depression, anxiety and stress experienced by UK midwives; compare levels of burnout, depression, anxiety and stress identified in this sample of UK midwives, with levels reported in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden; identify demographic and work-related factors associated with elevated levels of burnout, depression, anxiety and stress.

Design: Cross sectional research design using an online survey.

Systematic review of photobiomodulation for the management of oral mucositis in cancer patients and clinical practice guidelines.

Purpose: To systematically review the literature and update the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the use of photobiomodulation (PBM), such as laser and other light therapies, for the prevention and/or treatment of oral mucositis (OM).

Methods: A systematic review was conducted by the Mucositis Study Group of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer/International Society for Oral Oncology (MASCC/ISOO) using PubMed and Web of Science. We followed the MASCC methods for systematic review and guidelines development.

Research priorities and potential methodologies to inform care in subsequent pregnancies following stillbirth: a web-based survey of healthcare professionals, researchers and advocates.

Objectives: To identify research priorities and explore potential methodologies to inform care in subsequent pregnancies following a stillbirth.

Design: Web-based survey by invitation.

Participants: Multidisciplinary panel of 79 individuals involved in stillbirth research, clinical practice and/or advocacy from the international stillbirth research community (response rate=64%).

eradication therapy and risk of acquiring in young children with cystic fibrosis.

Background: While detection rates in adults, adolescents and older children with cystic fibrosis (CF) have increased, the risk of acquiring this fungal pathogen in young children is unknown.

Aim: To determine the risk and explanatory factors of acquiring in children with CF by age 5 years.

Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of clinical, bronchoalveolar lavage and treatment data from the Australasian Cystic Fibrosis Bronchoalveolar Lavage study was used to identify predictive factors for detecting at age 5 years.

Care in subsequent pregnancies following stillbirth: an international survey of parents.

Objective: To assess the frequency of additional care, and parents' perceptions of quality, respectful care, in pregnancies subsequent to stillbirth.

Design: Multi-language web-based survey.

Setting: International.

Febrile Seizures in the Era of Rotavirus Vaccine.

A protective association between rotavirus vaccination and childhood seizures in the year after vaccination was recently reported from the United States. In the state of Queensland, Australia, the authors found that rotavirus vaccine was 35.8% and 38.

Stillbirths: recall to action in high-income countries.

Variation in stillbirth rates across high-income countries and large equity gaps within high-income countries persist. If all high-income countries achieved stillbirth rates equal to the best performing countries, 19,439 late gestation (28 weeks or more) stillbirths could have been avoided in 2015. The proportion of unexplained stillbirths is high and can be addressed through improvements in data collection, investigation, and classification, and with a better understanding of causal pathways.

The ethics of future trials: qualitative analysis of physicians' decision making.

Background: The decision to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in a field raises ethical as well as scientific issues. From the clinical equipoise literature, future trials are justifiable if there is "honest, professional disagreement in the community of expert practitioners as to the preferred treatment". Empirical data are sparse about how clinicians apply the principles of equipoise to the justification of future RCTs.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibiotic resistance in Australian cystic fibrosis centres.

Background And Objective: In cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is associated with increased morbidity, antibiotic treatments and mortality. By linking Australian CF registry data with a national microbiological data set, we examined the association between where treatment was delivered, its intensity and P. aeruginosa antibiotic resistance.

The birth bed: A qualitative study on the views of midwives regarding the use of the bed in the birth space.

Background: There is a growing body of evidence to show that the birth environment can influence women's experiences of labour and birth as well as midwifery practice. A common feature of the modern birth space is the bed. Knowledge about how the use of the bed shapes clinicians' perceptions and attitudes is limited.

Do you have a right to decide? Or do we have a right to acquiesce?

Clinicians make decisions about patient management on a daily basis and are required to act in a way that is both legally and ethically correct. To act legally requires compliance with a set of rules which reflect the values and interests of society. Ethical decisions are based on what we believe as a group to be morally right.