Murray Enkin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Murray W. Enkin was a Canadian physician and writer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied medicine at the University of Toronto and later specialized as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. He was a professor, philosopher, activist, public speaker and author, who contributed to the fields of maternal care and childbirth, and evidence-based medicine.
Murray Enkin's Published Works
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Published Works
- Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. (1992) (4005)
- Do practice guidelines guide practice? The effect of a consensus statement on the practice of physicians. (1989) (1300)
- A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth (1989) (880)
- What Is eHealth (3): A Systematic Review of Published Definitions (2005) (851)
- Opinion leaders vs audit and feedback to implement practice guidelines. Delivery after previous cesarean section. (1991) (738)
- What is eHealth?: a systematic review of published definitions. (2005) (211)
- Randomized Controlled Trials: Questions, Answers and Musings (2007) (196)
- Effectiveness and Satisfaction in Antenatal Care (1983) (165)
- The Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials: developing a register of published reports of controlled trials. (1986) (137)
- Using anecdotal information in evidence-based health care: heresy or necessity? (1998) (99)
- Preparing and updating systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health care. (1993) (84)
- The role of evidence in the consensus process. Results from a Canadian consensus exercise. (1988) (82)
- I am a good patient, believe it or not (2003) (80)
- A randomized clinical trial of the Leboyer approach to childbirth. (1980) (73)
- The Effects of Whirlpool Baths in Labor: A Randomized, Controlled Trial (1996) (70)
- Are virtual communities good for our health? (2006) (68)
- What's in Placebos: Who Knows? Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials (2010) (60)
- The Labor and Delivery Satisfaction Index: the development and evaluation of a soft outcome measure. (1987) (57)
- Effective care in pregnancy and childbirth: a synopsis. (1995) (52)
- Single versus two layer suturing for closing the uterine incision at caesarean section. (2006) (51)
- Beyond evidence: the complexity of maternity care. (2006) (50)
- Manual removal of placenta at caesarean section. (2000) (48)
- What's a good doctor and how do you make one? (2002) (45)
- Instrumental vaginal delivery (2000) (42)
- Proportion of fetal hemoglobin synthesis decreases during erythroid cell maturation. (1980) (38)
- Systematic review of the literature on postpartum care: methodology and literature search results. (2004) (34)
- Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials (2008) (34)
- Systematic review of the literature on postpartum care: selected contraception methods, postpartum Papanicolaou test, and rubella immunization. (2004) (28)
- Risk in pregnancy: the reality, the perception, and the concept. (1994) (27)
- The new alchemy: transmuting information into knowledge in an electronic age. (2000) (26)
- Monitoring the progress of labor (2000) (24)
- Effective care in pregnancy and childbirth: a synopsis. (1995) (24)
- Promoting pulmonary maturity (2000) (24)
- Obstetrical attitudes and practices before and after the Canadian Consensus Conference Statement on Cesarean Birth. (1991) (23)
- Peritoneal non-closure at caesarean section. (2000) (21)
- Uterine exteriorization versus intraperitoneal repair at caesarean section. (1996) (21)
- Commentary: are the correct outcomes of prenatal education being measured? (1990) (20)
- The role of social support in the prevention of preterm birth. (1988) (17)
- Computers: transcending our limits? (2007) (16)
- Immediate care of the newborn infant (2000) (16)
- Infection in pregnancy (2000) (16)
- Having a Section is Having a Baby (1977) (14)
- Lateral tilt for caesarean section. (2006) (13)
- The need for evidence-based obstetrics (1996) (13)
- Absorbable staples for uterine incision at caesarean section. (2000) (12)
- Medical Milestones celebrating key advances since 1840 (2007) (12)
- The effects of whirlpools baths in labor: a randomized, controlled trial. (1996) (12)
- WITHDRAWN: Lateral tilt for caesarean section. (2007) (11)
- The outcome of prolonged labor as defined by partography and the use of oxytocin: a descriptive study. (1983) (11)
- WITHDRAWN: Manual removal of placenta at caesarean section. (2006) (11)
- Six myths about controlled trials in perinatal medicine. (1985) (11)
- Social and professional support in childbirth (2000) (11)
- Mother and baby (2000) (11)
- Is GIFT (gamete intrafallopian transfer) the best treatment for unexplained infertility? (1992) (10)
- Observations on the behavioral state of newborn infants during the first hour of life. A comparison of infants delivered by the Leboyer and conventional methods. (1981) (10)
- Section 6: Education and Consumer Informatics: The Path towards eHealth: Obstacles along the Way (2006) (9)
- Control of pain in labor (2000) (9)
- Repair of perineal trauma (2000) (9)
- Entrenched health care practices and complex systems. (2006) (9)
- Screening for pre-eclampsia (2000) (9)
- The Importance of Clinical Trials in Preterm Labor (1984) (8)
- Smoking and pregnancy--a new look. (1984) (8)
- Systematic summaries and dissemination of evidence: the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Database. (1995) (8)
- One and two sided tests of significance. One sided tests should be used more often. (1994) (8)
- Types of Randomized Controlled Trials (2008) (7)
- WITHDRAWN: Absorbable staples for uterine incision at caesarean section. (2006) (6)
- Questioning the Methodological Superiority of ‘Placebo’ over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials (2009) (6)
- The Family in Labour (1975) (6)
- Lifestyle in Pregnancy (1984) (6)
- Cesarean section in Ontario: practice patterns and responses to hypothetical cases. (1990) (6)
- From Individual Trials to Groups of Trials: Reviews, Meta‐Analyses, and Guidelines (2008) (6)
- Unpleasant symptoms in pregnancy (2000) (6)
- Collecting the Evidence Systematically: Ensuring That It Is Complete and Up-to-Date (1996) (6)
- Perineal pain and discomfort (2000) (5)
- Evaluating care in pregnancy and childbirth (2000) (5)
- Randomized Controlled Trials in the Evaluation of Antenatal Care (1992) (5)
- Family-centred Obstetrics (1984) (4)
- Episiotomy: effects of a research protocol on clinical practice. (1984) (4)
- Prelabor Rupture of the Membranes (2000) (4)
- A service note: inquiries into perinatal deaths at area health authority level (a status report winter 1979/80). (1980) (4)
- A service note: Inquiries into perinatal deaths at area health authority level (a status report winter 1979/80) (1980) (4)
- A paean to Iain Chalmers. (1993) (3)
- Assessment of fetal growth, size, and well-being (2000) (3)
- The patient-centered (R)evolution. (2007) (3)
- Support for pregnant women (2000) (3)
- The seven stages of ignorance. (2008) (3)
- What do we mean by ‘effective care’? (2000) (3)
- Dietary modification in pregnancy (2000) (3)
- Randomized Controlled Trials: The Basics (2008) (3)
- Pregnancy : parts I-V (1989) (2)
- Commentary: Cesarean Section: Why Do the Rates Differ? (1989) (2)
- A midwife led debriefing session after operative childbirth did not reduce postpartum depression (2001) (2)
- Imaging ultrasound in pregnancy (2000) (2)
- Suspected fetopelvic disproportion and abnormal lie (2000) (2)
- A matter of perspective. (2000) (2)
- Preparing for induction of labor (2000) (1)
- A DAY WITH MICHEL ODENT (1981) (1)
- From Trials to Decisions: The Basis of Evidence‐Based Health Care (2008) (1)
- Maternity care today: is our glass half empty or half full? (1998) (1)
- Local anaesthesia with bupivacaine following laparoscopy: a double blind controlled trial (1987) (1)
- Breast symptoms in women who are not breastfeeding (2000) (1)
- Post-term pregnancy (2000) (1)
- Are antenatal tests for fetal well-being worthwhile? (1992) (1)
- Back on the hook: Narrative based medicine: dialogue and discourse in clinical practice (1999) (1)
- Childbirth : parts VI-X and index (1989) (1)
- Methods of inducing labor (2000) (1)
- Antenatal education. (2008) (1)
- WITHDRAWN: Single versus two layer suturing for closing the uterine incision at Caesarean section. (2007) (1)
- Biases in evaluating research: are they all bad? (2008) (1)
- Ethics and Clinical Trials: Are they Compatible? (2008) (0)
- Labor and birth after previous cesarean-Chapter 38 from A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth (0)
- Reporting and Interpreting Individual Trials: The Essentials (2008) (0)
- No conflict: GENI is a university-based project (2017) (0)
- A midwife-led debriefing session after operative childbirth did not reduce postpartum depression (2001) (0)
- Labor and birth after previous cesarean section (2000) (0)
- Year Book of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine 1990, Book Review. (1992) (0)
- Entrenched health care practices and complex systems: The Clinamen Collaborative (2006) (0)
- Prophylactic antibiotics with cesarean section (2000) (0)
- Reprise: More Musings (2008) (0)
- The Path towards eHealth : Obstacles along the (2018) (0)
- Ethics and Clinical Trials: Are they Compatible? (2008) (0)
- Loss and grief in the perinatal period (2000) (0)
- Observations on the Behavioral State of Newborn Infants during the First Hour of Life. A Comparison of Infants Delivered by the Leboyer and Conventional Methods (1982) (0)
- Care of the fetus during labor (2000) (0)
- Rhesus iso-immunization (2000) (0)
- Bleeding in the latter half of pregnancy (2000) (0)
- The third stage of labor (2000) (0)
- Statistical significance. (1996) (0)
- Assessing the Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials: Why, What, How, and by Whom? (2008) (0)
- Clinical Trials in Perinatal Medicine: The Canadian Contribution (1996) (0)
- Entrapment neuropathies in birth and breastfeeding. (1988) (0)
- Screening for congenital anomalies (2000) (0)
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