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| Welcome to the second email newsletter of PQCNC's Support for Birth initiative! This email only goes out to the person identified as the "key contact" for each team. It is the key contact's responsibility to share relevant information with the rest of your team and others at your hospital.
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Data Collection Webinar Tuesday September 21 at 1:00 PM
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Data collection webinar Tuesday September 21 at 1pm (tomorrow!): Each team must be represented on this webinar so you can review procedures for data collection, which will begin October 1.
To access the webinar, click here. Please test this link in advance if you have not used the Elluminate program before. If you have any difficulties please contact Keith. You will also need to dial in separately for the audio portion: 712-432-6100, passcode 96875#. At the time of the webinar, please dial in even if you have trouble with the Elluminate link so we know you are trying to join in.
The data collection form has been updated; click here for a copy. The webinar is scheduled from 1:00-2:30pm to allow sufficient time for questions; needed content will be reviewed within the first hour.
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| Using www.pqcnc.org: |
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Please create an account on www.pqcnc.org if you have not done so already. To do this, click the green "login" button on the homepage, then use the "create new account" tab. You may use any username/password combination you choose - make it easy to remember!
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Study of Interest
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The September issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology includes a study from the Consortium on Safe Labor about the frequency and causes of cesarean delivery in the United States. This study looked at records of over 220,000 women at 19 hospitals across the U.S. from 2002-2008 and found that 31.2% of nulliparous women delivered by c-section. 44% of women attempting vaginal delivery had an induction of labor. The rate of c-section among women with inductions was twice that of women with spontaneous labor among nulliparous and multiparous women, before and after 39 weeks of gestation. Click here to view this study.
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Contact Kate
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Kate Berrien, RN, BSN, MS
UNC Center for Maternal & Infant Health
CB# 7181
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
kberrien@unch.unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-9336 Fax: 919-843-7866 |
