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The Current Research Agenda
The research team at PeriGen is exploring several topics. These include uterine tachysystole and its association with perinatal outcome and the determinants of severe uterine hemorrhage. The team is also considering measuring the impact of modifiable factors associated with 3rd and 4th degree perineal lacerations. These research topics were selected because they will contribute new insights for solving some of the more challenging and serious problems in contemporary obstetrical practice. With participants from several client hospitals, these studies will help advance our mutual missions to improve obstetrical care with evidence-based methods.
Research Papers
Title: Implementation of a System-Wide Policy for Labor Induction
Publication: MCN, Maternal-Child Nursing
Date: September/October 2011
Author: P. Terrence O'Rourke, MD, FACS, Gerald J Girardi, MD, FACOG,
Thomas N Balaskas, MD, FACOG, Rebecca A Havlisch, JD, RN, Gay Landstrom,
MS, RN, Beth Kirby, MSHL, CPHRM G. Eric Knox, MD, and Kathleen Rice
Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Title: Third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations: defining high-risk clinical clusters (*Editor's Choice*)
Publication: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date: April 2011
Author: Emily F. Hamilton, MD; Samuel Smith, MD; Lin Yang, MSc; Philip Warrick, PhD; Antonio Ciampi, PhD
Title: Quality Improvement Opportunities in Intrapartum Care
Publication: March Of Dimes
Date: December 2010
Author: Steven L. Clark, Eric Knox, Kathleen Rice Simpson, Gary D.V. Hankins
Title: An evidence-based approach is born: Hospitals, docs use protocols to cut costs from avoidable OB/GYN injuries
Publication: Physician Affairs
Date: December 20/27, 2010
Author: Linda Wilson
Title: Comparison of 5 experts and computer analysis in rule-based fetal heart rate interpretation
Publication: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date: July 14, 2010
Author: Parer JT, Hamilton EF
Title: Perinatal high reliability
Publication: www.AJOG.org
Date: June 2010
Author: G. Eric Knox, MD; Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RN
Title: Graded classification of fetal heart rate tracings: association with neonatal metabolic acidosis and neurologic morbidity
Publication: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date: March 1, 2010
Author: Colm Elliot, MEng; Philip Warrick, PhD; Ernest Graham, MD; Emily F. Hamilton, MD
Title: A Comprehensive Perinatal Patient Safety Program to Reduce Preventable Adverse Outcomes and Costs of Liability Claims
Publication: The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Date: November 2009
Author: Kathleen Rice Simpson, Ph.D., R.N.C.; Carol C. Kortz, C.P.H.R.M., C.H.S.P.; G. Eric Knox, M.D.
Title: Effect of clinical-decision support on documentation compliance in an electronic medical record
Publication: Obstetrics & Gynecology
Date: August 1, 2009
Author: Shoshana Haberman, MD, PhD; Joseph Feldman, DrPH; Zaher O. Merhi, MD; Glenn Markenson, MD; Wayne Cohen, MD; Howard Minkoff, MD
Title: Oxytocin: new perspectives on an old drug
Publication: www.AJOG.org
Date: January 2009
Author: Steven L. Clark, MD; Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC; G. Eric Knox, MD; Thomas J. Garite, MD
Title: Is Shoulder Dystocia with Brachial Plexus Injury Preventable?
Publication: Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review
Date: December 1, 2008
Author: Henry Lerner, MD and Emily Hamilton, MD et al.
Title: Partnering with technology to reduce OB losses
Publication: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management
Date: December 2007
Author: Larry L. Smith, JD and Dorothy Berry, RN, BSN, HRM, CPHRM
Title: Shoulder dystocia: What if you could see it coming?
Publication: CONTEMPORARY OB GYN
Date: November 2007
Author: Henry Lerner, MD, Emily Hamilton, MD
Title: Labor Pains Unraveling the Complexity of OB Decision Making
Publication: Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
Date: December 2006
Author: Hamilton A, Wright, E.
Title: Prediction of risk for shoulder dystocia with neonatal injury
Publication: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date: July 17 2006
Author: Dyachenko A, Ciampi A, Fahey J, Mighty H, Oppenheimer L, Hamilton EF
Title: Fetal heart rate deceleration detection from the discrete cosine transform spectrum.
Publication: Abstract presentation at EMBS
Date: January 1 2005
Author: Philip A. Warrick, Doina Precup, Emily Hamilton, Robert Edward Kearney
Title: Neural network based detection of fetal heart rate patterns
Publication: Abstract presentation at IJCNN
Date: Jan 1 2005
Author: Philip Warrick, Emily Hamilton, Maciej Macieszczak
Title: Fetal heart rate patterns and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
Publication: American Journal of Perinatology
Date: January 1 2005
Author: EF Hamilton, RW Platt
Title: The effect of computer-assisted evaluation of labor on cesarean rates
Publication: Journal of Healthcare Quality
Date: January 1 2005
Author: Hamilton E, Platt R, Gauthier R, McNamara H, Miner L, Rothenberg S, Asselin G, Sabbah R, Benjamin A, Lake M, Vintzileos
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