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Comparing Cesarean Birth Utilization Between US Hospitals Open

Denise C. Smith, Julia C. Phillippi, Ellen L. Tilden, Nancy K. Lowe, Nicole S. Carlson , et al. · 2023

Background: The World Health Organization-endorsed Robson Ten-Group Classification System (TGCS) is a standard reporting mechanism for cesarean birth, yet this approach is not widely adopted in the United States. Objective: To describe the…

JOGNN’s Editorial Statement on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, 2021 Open

Nancy K. Lowe, Angela Hartley · 2021

Black Women’s Lives Matter Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2021

JOGNN’s 50th year Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2020

2020—The Year of the Nurse and the Pandemic Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2020

Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2020

An Integrated Review of Uterine Activity Monitoring for Evaluating Labor Dystocia Open

Katherine Kissler, Nancy K. Lowe, Teri L. Hernandez · 2020

Introduction Labor dystocia is the most common cause of cesarean birth in the United States, yet how dystocia develops during labor remains elusive. Uterine activity monitoring has significant potential for advancing our understanding of l…

Reflections on COVID-19 Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2020

Development of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Skills Self-Efficacy Inventory to Assess Rural Healthcare Providers Open

Stacy M. Stellflug, Nancy K. Lowe · 2020

Using the Robson 10‐Group Classification System to Compare Cesarean Birth Utilization Between US Centers With and Without Midwives Open

Denise C. Smith, Julia C. Phillippi, Nancy K. Lowe, Rachel Blankstein Breman, Nicole S. Carlson , et al. · 2019

Introduction The Robson 10‐group classification system stratifies cesarean birth rates using maternal characteristics. Our aim was to compare cesarean birth utilization in US centers with and without midwifery care using the Robson classif…

What Is a Pilot Study? Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2019

Influence of midwifery presence in United States centers on labor care and outcomes of low‐risk parous women: A Consortium on Safe Labor study Open

Nicole S. Carlson, Jeremy L. Neal, Ellen L. Tilden, Denise C. Smith, Rachel Blankstein Breman , et al. · 2018

Background Sixty percent of United States births are to multiparous women. Hospital‐level policies and culture may influence intrapartum care and birth outcomes for this large population, yet have been poorly explored using a large, divers…

Applying a physiologic partograph to Consortium on Safe Labor data to identify opportunities for safely decreasing cesarean births among nulliparous women Open

Jeremy L. Neal, Nancy K. Lowe, Aaron B. Caughey, Kelly Bennett, Ellen L. Tilden , et al. · 2018

Background The timing of hospital admission for women with spontaneous labor onset and the criteria used to assess active labor progress and diagnose labor dystocia may significantly influence women's risk for primary cesarean birth. Our a…

Temporal Immediacy Open

Paul Cook, Sarah J. Schmiege, Blaine Reeder, Sara Horton‐Deutsch, Nancy K. Lowe , et al. · 2018

The principle of temporal immediacy is a tool to integrate nursing science with other disciplinary traditions and to improve research and practice. Interventions should build on each system's strengths, rather than treating the intuitive s…

Oxytocin Augmentation in Spontaneously Laboring, Nulliparous Women: Multilevel Assessment of Maternal BMI and Oxytocin Dose Open

Nicole S. Carlson, Elizabeth J. Corwin, Nancy K. Lowe · 2017

Background: Synthetic oxytocin, the primary tool for labor augmentation, is less effective among obese women, leading to more unplanned cesarean deliveries for slow labor progress. It is not known if obese women require higher doses of oxy…

Likelihood of cesarean delivery after applying leading active labor diagnostic guidelines Open

Jeremy L. Neal, Nancy K. Lowe, Julia C. Phillippi, Sharon Ryan, Amy Knupp , et al. · 2017

Background Friedman, the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE ), and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists/Society for Maternal‐Fetal Medicine ( ACOG / SMFM ) support different active …

Labor Intervention and Outcomes in Women Who Are Nulliparous and Obese: Comparison of Nurse‐Midwife to Obstetrician Intrapartum Care Open

Nicole S. Carlson, Elizabeth J. Corwin, Nancy K. Lowe · 2017

Background Women who are obese have slower labors than women of normal weight, and show reduced response to interventions designed to speed labor progress like oxytocin augmentation and artificial rupture of membranes. The optimal labor ma…

The 40th Anniversary and Counting of the Nurses' Health Study Open

Nancy K. Lowe · 2016

Reframing US Maternity Care: Lessons Learned From End‐of‐Life Care Open

Ellen L. Tilden, Jonathan M. Snowden, Aaron B. Caughey, Nancy K. Lowe · 2016

Pollen from <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> and other Brassicaceae are functionally omniaperturate Open

Anna Edlund, Qin Zheng, Nancy K. Lowe, Skye Kuseryk, Krystle L. Ainsworth , et al. · 2016

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Most pollen walls are interrupted by apertures, thin areas providing access to stigmatic fluids and exit points for pollen tubes. Unexpectedly, pollen tubes of Arabidopsis thaliana are not obligated to pass through ap…

Prepregnancy Obesity and a Biobehavioral Predictive Model for Postpartum Depression Open

Sharon L. Ruyak, Nancy K. Lowe, Elizabeth J. Corwin, Madalynn Neu, Blake Boursaw · 2016

Evaluation of Training Methods Required for Military Women's Accurate Use of a Self-Diagnosis and Self-Treatment Kit for Vaginal and Urinary Symptoms Open

Nancy A. Ryan‐Wenger, Nancy K. Lowe · 2015

Most military women are reluctant to attend sick call for urinary and vaginal symptoms during deployment; therefore, alternative self-care options are needed. We evaluated the type and intensity of training required for women to make accur…

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