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ArticleThe Journal of perinatal education2010

After a Cesarean…What's a Birth Professional to Do?

Desirre Andrews, Gretchen Humphries

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Article in The Journal of perinatal education, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Desirre AndrewsDESIRRE ANDREWS is President of the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN). As the owner of Preparing For Birth, LLC (http://prepforbirth.com), she works as a childbirth educator, a labor doula, and a lactation educator in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is an avid blogger on birth-related topics. GRETCHEN HUMPHRIES is Advocacy Director of ICAN as well as a veterinarian working in emergency and critical care in southeastern Michigan. She has written extensively on birth topics, and many of her essays can be found online at www.birthtruth.org.
Gretchen Humphries
University of Colorado Colorado Springs · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The discrepancy between the evidence supporting vaginal birth after cesarean and actual medical practice illuminates the larger issues of evidence-based care versus current obstetrical practice. Although the reasons for the disconnect between what we know to be healthy birth practices and what women actually experience are multiple and complex, a commitment to providing accurate education, truly client-centered support, and active patient advocacy will give women the ability to insist on best practice care for themselves and their babies. The International Cesarean Awareness Network believes that all childbirth professionals and advocates share a responsibility to promote change and must work together to be effective.

Identifiers

PMID21358830
PMCPMC2866434
OpenAlexW2014031002

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.