Recent publications by our team members

November 24, 2021

Check out the recent publications by our team members related to preterm birth:

Adhikari K, Patten SB, Patel AB, Premji S, Tough S, Letourneau N, Giesbrecht G, Metcalfe A. 2021. Data Harmonization and Data Pooling from Cohort Studies: A Practical Approach for Data Management. In press International Journal of Population Data Science

Assis Z, Kirton A, Pauranik A, Sherriff M, Wei XC. Idiopathic Neonatal Subpial Hemorrhage with Underlying Cerebral Infarct: Imaging Features and Clinical Outcome. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2021 Jan;42(1):185-193. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A6872.

Dunbar MJ, Woodward K, Leijser LM, Kirton A. Antenatal diagnosis of fetal intraventricular hemorrhage: systematic review and meta-analysis. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2021 Feb;63(2):144-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.14713.

Fenton TR, Nasser R, Creighton D, Tang S, Sauve R, Bilan D, Fenton CJ, Eliasziw M. Weight, length, and head circumference at 36 weeks are not predictive of later cognitive impairment in very preterm infants. J Perinatol. 2021 Mar;41(3):606-614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-020-00855-0.

Nahirney M, Chaput K, Metcalfe A. Assessing the role of maternal race on the prediction of NICU admission by three neonatal growth standards: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Meternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2021;34(8):1233-1240. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/14767058.2019.1631791.

Mackay, L., Benzies, K. M., Barnard, C., & Raffin Bouchal, S. (2021). Journeying Alongside One Another: A Grounded Theory of Parents and Health Care Professionals Caring for Hospitalized Medically Fragile Infants. Children’s Health Care. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/02739615.2021.1973900.

MacKinnon AL, Madsen JW, Giesbrecht GF, Campbell T, Carlson LE, Dimidjian S. Letourneau N, Tough S, Tomfohr-Madsen L. Effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Pregnancy on Psychological Distress and Gestational Age: Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Mindfulness. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01585-2.

McNeil, DA, Benzies, KM, Zanoni, P, Kurilova J. Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare)™: From engaged clinicians in a cluster randomized controlled trial to health system partnership in scale and spread across a province. In: McCutcheon C, Reszel J, Kothari A, Graham ID, editors. How We Work Together: The Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network Casebook. 2021. Volume 4, 16-19. Ottawa, ON: Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network. Available here.

Mohammad K, Scott JN, Leijser LM, Zein H, Afifi J, Piedboeuf B, de Vries LS, van Wezel-Meijler G, Lee SK, Shah PS. Consensus Approach for Standardizing the Screening and Classification of Preterm Brain Injury Diagnosed With Cranial Ultrasound: A Canadian Perspective. Front Pediatr. 2021 Mar 8;9:618236. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.618236.

Mitra S, Jain A, Ting JY, Ben Fadel N, Drolet C, Abou Mehrem A, Soraisham A, Jasani B, Louis D, Lapointe A, Dorling J, Khurshid F, Hyderi A, Kumaran K, Bodani J, Weisz D, Alvaro R, Adie M, Stavel M, Morin A, Bhattacharya S, Kanungo J, Canning R, Ye XY, Hatfield T, Gardner CE, Shah P. Relative effectiveness and safety of pharmacotherapeutic agents for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants: a protocol for a multicentre comparative effectiveness study (CANRxPDA). BMJ Open. 2021 May 5;11(5):e050682. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050682.

Qureshi M, Shah PS, Abdelgadir D, Ye XY, Afifi J, Yuen R, Crossman SC, Taylor B, Mohammad K, Piedboeuf B, Aziz K. Canadian Neonatal Network investigators. Gestational Age-Dependent Variations in Effects of Prophylactic Indomethacin on Brain Injury and Intestinal Injury. J Pediatr. 2021 Mar 7:S0022-3476(21)00216-X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.02.073.

Roychoudhury S, Lodha A, Synnes A, Abou Mehrem A, Canning R, Banihani R, Beltempo M, Theriault K, Yang J, Shah PS, Soraisham AS; Canadian Neonatal Network; Canadian Preterm Birth Network; Canadian Neonatal Follow-Up Network Investigators. Neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants conceived by assisted reproductive technology. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Sep;225(3):276.e1-276.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2021.03.027.

Wood EM, Hornaday KK, Slater DM (2021) Prostaglandins in biofluids in pregnancy and labour: A systematic review. PLOS ONE 16(11): e0260115. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260115.

Zanoni, P., Scime, N. V., Benzies, K. M., McNeil, D. A., Mrklas, K. (2021). Facilitators and barriers to implementation of Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) in Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU): a qualitative process evaluation sub-study of a multi-centre cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT) using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). BMJ Open 2021;11:e054938. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e054938.

Zein H, Mohammad K, Leijser LM, Brundler MA, Kirton A, Esser MJ. Cord Blood Cytokine Levels Correlate With Types of Placental Pathology in Extremely Preterm Infants. Front Pediatr. 2021 Mar 11;9:607684. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.607684.