Alliance for the Improvement of Maternity Services (AIMS)
REFERENCES:
AUTHORS NOTE: These references, arranged alphabetically, represent some of the turning points in the history of maternity care:
Annas, G. (1989), "The Rights of Patients. The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient Rights," 135-8. 2nd Ed., (Southern Illinois University Press).
Burnett, C. et al. (1980), "Home Delivery and Neonatal Mortality in North Carolina," Journal of the American Medical Assosiation 244:2741- 5.
Campbell, J.; Elford, R. W.; Brant, R. (1993), "Case-Control Study of Prenatal Ultrasonography Exposure in Children with Delayed Speech," Canadian Medical Association Journal 149:1435-40.
Campbell, R., and MacFarland, A. (1994), "Where to be born? The Debate and the Evidence," 2nd Edition, (National Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit, Oxford).
Congressional Hearing on "Effects of Prescription Drugs During Pregnancy," Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session. July 30, 1981, [No. 62]. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981. Doris Haire, Principal Speaker.
Conway, E., and Brackbill, Y. (1970), "Delivery Medication and Infant Outcome: An Empirical Study," in monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 35:24-34. Eds. W.A. Bowes et al.
Corby, D., and Schulman, I. (1971), "The Effects of Antenatal Drug Administration on Aggregation of Platelets of Newborn Infants," Journal of Pediatrics 79- 2:307-13.
Editorial. (1990), "Effect of delivery room routines on success of first breast- feed," Lancet 336: 1105-07.
Ewigman, B.; Crane, J.; Frigoletti, F.; LeFevre, M.; Bain, R.; McNellis, D. (1993), "Effect of Prenatal Ultrasound Screening on Perinatal Outcome," New England Journal of Medicine 329: 821-7.
Golding, J.; Paterson, M.; Kinlen, L. (1990), "Factors Associated with Childhood Cancer in a National Cohort Study," Br. J. Cancer 62: 304-08.
Haire, D. (1985), "How the FDA Determines the `Safety' of Drugs - Just How Safe is 'Safe'," National Women's Health Network.
Haire, D. (1987), "Drugs in Labor and Birth," Childbirth Educator, Spring Issue.
Harvard Medical Practice Study: (1990), "Patients, doctors, and lawyers: medical injury, malpractice litigation, and patient compensation in New York: a report by the Harvard Medical Practice Study to the State of New York," authored by the Harvard Medical Practice Study (located in the Harvard Law Library, Langdell Hall, Countway Medicine: Ref. W44 H339p, Law School Ref. # KFN5546.A13 H38). Copies available from the New York State Dept of Health, Albany, N.Y.
Jacobson, B. et al. (1990), "Opiate Addiction in Adult Offspring Through Possible Imprinting after Obstetric Treatment," British Medical Journal 301: 1067- 70.
Kanto, I., and Erkkola, R. (1984), "Obstetric Analgesia, Parmacokinetics and its Relation to Neonatal Behavioral and Adaptive Functions," Biological Research in Pregnancy 5: 23-35.
Klein, M. (1995), "Studying Episiotomy: When Beliefs Conflict with Science," Journal of Family Practice 41:483-488.
Klein, M.; Gauthier, R.; Robbins, J. M.; et al. (1994), "Relatioship of episiotomy to perineal trauma and morbitdity, sexual dysfunction, and pelvic floor relaxation," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 171:591-598.
Kuhnert, B. et al. (1985), "Disposition of Meperidine and Normeperidine Following Multiple Doses During Labor: II Fetus and Neonate," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 151:410-15.
MacArthur, C.; Lewis, M.; Knox, E.; Crawford, J. (1990), "Epidural Anaesthesia and Long Term Backache after Childbirth," British Medical Journal 301: 9- 12.
Mallard, E. C.; Gunn, A. J.; Williams, C. R.; et al. (1992), "Transient Umbilical Cord Occlusion Causes Hippocampal Damage in the Fetal Sheep," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 157: 1423-1430.
Morrison, J.C., et al. (1976), "Metabolites of Meperidine in the Fetal and Maternal Serum," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 126:997-1002.
Newnham, J.; Evans, S.; Michael, C.; Stanley, F.; Landau, L. (1993), "Effects of Frequent Ultrasound during Pregnancy: a Randomized Controlled Trial," Lancet 342: 887-91.
Nimmo, W.; Wilson, J.; Prescott, L. (1975), "Narcotic Analgesics and Delayed Gastric Emptying During Labour," Lancet April 1975, 890-3.
Physician's Desk Reference, (Medical Economics Company, Inc., Oradell, NJ 07649).
Ralston, D., and Shnider, S. (1978), "The Fetal and Neonatal Effects of Regional Anesthesia in Obstetrics," Anesthesiology 48:34-64.
Righard, L., and Alade, M. (1990), "Effect of Delivery Room Routines on Success of First Breast-Feed," Lancet 336: 1105-07.
Rosenblatt, D., et al. (1981), "The Influence of Maternal Analgesia on Neonatal Behavior: II Epidural Bupivacaine," British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 88: 407-17.
Sepkoski, C.; Lester, B.; Ostheimer, G.; Brazelton, T. B. (1992), "The Effects of Maternal Epidural Anesthesia on Neonatal Behavior during the First Month," Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 34: 1072-1080.
Tew, M. (1990), "Safer Childbirth," (Chapman and Hall Publishing).
Tew, M. (1993), "Do Obstetric Interventions Make Birth Safer," British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 93;7:659-74.
Thorp, J., et al. (1993), "The Effect of Intrapartum Epidural Analgesia on Nulliparous Labor: A Randomized, Controlled, Prospective Trial," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 169: 851-8.
Wooley, R. (1995), "Benefits and Risks of Episiotomy; A Review of the English Language Literature since 80. Part II," Obstetric Gynecologic Survey 50: 821-35.
Zador, G.; Lindmark, G.; and Nielsson, B. (1974), "Pudendal Block in Normal Vaginal Deliveries," Acta Gynecology Obstetric Scandanavia Suppuplement 34:51-64.