Collaboration for Equity
Holzer D, Breen J, Finn K, Fisher T, Leeman L, Levine A, Lewis A, Low L, Michele T, Norsigian J, Vedam S. (2014) Best practice guidelines for transfer from home to hospital. Home Birth Summit Collaboration Task Force. https://www.birthplacelab.org/best-practice-guidelines-for-transfer-and-collaboration/
Vedam S, Zephryin L, Hardtman P, Lusero I, Olson R, Hassan SS, van den Broek N, Stoll K, Niles P, Goode K, Nunally L, Bair JW. Transdisciplinary imagination: addressing equity and mistreatment in perinatal care. Maternal and Child Health Journal, March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-022-03419-0
Ending Medical Racism
Culture-Centered Care
Almanza JI, Tessier, KM, Karbeah J; Neerland C; Stoll K; Hardeman R; Vedam S. The impact of culturally-centered care on peripartum experiences of autonomy and respect in community birth centers. Maternal and Child Health Journal, November 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03245-w
Perinatal Safe Spots
Ashley R, Goodarzi B, Horn A, de Klerk H, Ku SE, Marcus JK, Mayra K, Mohamied F, Nayiga H, Sharma P, Udho S, Vijber MR, van der Waal R. A call for critical midwifery studies: Confronting systemic injustice in sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn care. Birth. 2022; 49: 355-359. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12661
Bridgeman-Bunyoli AM, Cheyney M, Monroe S, Wiggins N, Vedam S. Preterm and low birth weight birth in the United States: Black midwives speak of causality, prevention, and healing. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, February 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12624
Niles P, Asiodu IV, Crear-Perry J, Julian Z, Lyndon A, McLemore MR, Planey AM, Scott KA, Vedam S. Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care During a Pandemic. Health Equity, 2020, 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0022
Rubashkin N. Why Equitable Access to Vaginal Birth Requires Abolition of Race-Based Medicine. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2022 Mar 1;24(3):233-8. DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.233
Measuring Quality of Care
Altman MR, Cragg K, van Winkle T, Julian Z, Obedin-Maliver J, Tarasoff LA, Eagen-Torkko M, Ferrell BL, Rubashkin NA, Lusero I, Vedam S. Birth Includes Us: Development of a community-led survey to capture experiences of pregnancy care among LGBTQ2S+ families. Birth, 2023 Jan 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12704
Clark E, Vedam S, Mclean A, Stoll K, Lo W, Hall WA. Using the Delphi Method to Validate Indicators of Respectful Maternity Care for High Resource Countries. J Nurs Meas. 2023;31(1):120-144. doi:10.1891/JNM-2021-0030
Feijen-de Jong EI, van der Pijl M, Vedam S, Jansen DEMC, Peters LL. Measuring respect and autonomy in Dutch maternity care: Applicability of two measures. Women and Birth, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.10.008
Kennedy HP, Cheyney M, Dahlen HG, Downe S, Foureur MJ, Jefford E, Michel-Schuldt, Sandall J, Soltani H, Speciale, AM, Stevens J, Vedam S, Renfrew MJ. Asking different questions: A call to action for research to improve the quality of care for every woman, every child. Birth, 2018;00:1‐10.https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12361
Mayra K. 2022. Birth mapping- a visual arts-based participatory research method embedded in feminist epistemology. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221105382
Rubashkin N, Szebik I, Baji P, Szántó Z, Susánszky E, Vedam S. Assessing quality of maternity care in Hungary: expert validation and testing of the mother-centered prenatal care (MCPC) survey instrument. BMC Reproductive Health, 2017. 14:152. DOI 10.1186/s12978-017-0413-3.
Schummers L, Vedam S, Fairbrother N, Klein M, Kaczorowski J. (2012). The Canadian Birth Place Study: Development, validation, and administration of a questionnaire to multi-disciplinary maternity care providers. Canadian Journal of Midwifery and Practice, 11(1):35-45.
Vedam S, Stoll K, Khemet Taiwo T, Rubashkin N, Cheyney M, Strauss N, McLemore M, Cadena M, Nethery E, Rushton E, Schummers L, Declercq E, GVtM-US Steering Council. Giving Voice to Mothers: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States. Reproductive Health, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0729-2
Vedam S, Rossiter C, Homer, Scarf V, Stoll K. The ResQu Index: a new instrument to appraise the quality of birth place research. PLOS ONE, 2017 Aug 10. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182991
Vedam S, Stoll K, Martin K, Rubashkin N, Partridge S, Thordarson, Jolicoeur G, the CCinBC Steering Council. The Mother’s Autonomy in Decision Making (MADM) Scale: patient-led development and psychometric testing of a new instrument to evaluate experience of maternity care. PLOS ONE, 2017,12(2): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171804
Vedam S, Stoll K, Rubashkin N, Martin K, Miller-Vedam Z, Hayes-Klein H, Jolicoeur G, the CCinBC Steering Council. The Mothers on Respect (MOR) index: measuring quality, safety, and human rights in childbirth. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 2017, 3: 201-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.005
Midwifery Integration
Kennedy, HP, Balaam, M-C, Dahlen, H, et al. The role of midwifery and other international insights for maternity care in the United States: An analysis of four countries. Birth 2020; 47: 332– 345. DOI: 10.1111/birt.12504
Lefebvre K, Wild J, Stoll K, Vedam S. Through the resident lens: examining knowledge and attitudes about midwifery among physician trainees. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2018.1543258
Vedam S, Titoria R, Niles P, Stoll K, Hardtman P, Kumar V, Mayra K, Baswal D., Kaur I. Advancing quality and safety of perinatal services in India: opportunities for effective midwifery integration. Health Policy and Planning. April 1, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czac032
Vedam S, Stoll K, MacDorman M, Declercq E, Cramer R, Cheyney M, et al. Mapping integration of midwives across the United States: Impact on access, equity, and outcomes. PLoS ONE. 2018; 13(2): e0192523. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192523
Midwifery Outcomes
McRae D, Janssen P, Vedam S, Mayhew M, Mpofu D, Teucher U, Muhajarine N. Reduced Prevalence of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Preterm Birth for Women of Low Socioeconomic Position: A Population-Based Cohort Study Comparing Midwifery and Physician-Led Models of Care. BMJ Open, October 3, 2018. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/10/e022220?rss=1
Why Midwifery?
Niles P, Vedam S, Lyndon A, Squires A. Kairos care in a Chronos world: Midwifery care as model of resistance and accountability in public health settings. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, Special Issue on Midwifery, June 2021; 48(4): 480 - 492. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12565
Place of Birth
Bayrampour, H, Lisonkova, S, Tamana, S, Wines, J, Vedam, S, Janssen, P. Perinatal outcomes of planned home birth after cesarean and planned hospital vaginal birth after cesarean at term gestation in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective population-based cohort study. Birth, 2021; 48: 301– 308. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12539
Cheyney M, Bovbjerg M, Leeman L, Vedam S. What’s in a Name? “Out-of-Hospital” vs. “Community” J of Midwifery and Womens Health, 2019 Jan;64(1):9-11. doi: 10.1111/jmwh.12947
Cheyney M, Bovbjerg M, Everson C, Gordon W, Hannibal D, Vedam S. Outcomes of care for 16,924 planned home births in the United States: the Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics Project, 2004 to 2009. Journal of Midwifery Women’s Health, 2014;59(1):17-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.12172
De Vries RG, Parachuri Y, Lorenz K, Vedam S. Moral Science: Ethical argument and the production of knowledge about the safety of hospital and home birth. J Clinical Ethics, 2013; 24(3):222-235.
Michal CA, Janssen PA, Vedam S, Hutton EK, De Jonge A. Planned home vs hospital birth: a meta-analysis gone wrong. Medscape: Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2011. Available at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/739987
Schummers L, Vedam S, Fairbrother N, Klein M, Kaczorowski J. The Canadian Birth Place Study: Development, validation, and administration of a questionnaire to multi-disciplinary maternity care providers. Canadian Journal of Midwifery and Practice. 2012; 11(1):35-45.
Vedam S, Leeman L, Cheyney M, Fisher T, Myers S, Low L, Ruhl C. Transfer from planned home birth to hospital: Improving interprofessional collaboration. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. 2014: 59(6):624. DOI: 10.1111/jmwh.12251
Vedam S, Rossiter C, Homer, Scarf V, Stoll K. The ResQu Index: a new instrument to appraise the quality of birth place research. PLOS ONE, 2017 Aug 10. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182991
Vedam S, Rothman MB. Evidence-based home birth practice. In: Palmer & Vedam, et al., editors. ACNM Home Birth Practice Handbook. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: ACNM Publications; 2023.
Vedam S, Schummers L, Fulton C. Home Birth: An annotated guide to the literature. Fall Update. Vancouver, BC. Division of Midwifery, University of British Columbia. 2014
Vedam S, Stoll K, Fairbrother N, Thordarson D, Dharamsi S, Kornelsen J, Klein M, Liston R, Schummers L, Rogers J, Kaczorowski J. The Canadian Birth Place Study: Examining attitudes and interprofessional conflict. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2014;14:353. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/14/353
Vedam S, Stoll K, Schummers L, Rogers J, Paine L. Home birth in North America: Attitudes and practice of American Certified Nurse-Midwives and Canadian Registered Midwives. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. 2014; 59(2):141-152. DOI: 10.1111/jmwh.12076
Vedam S, Schummers L, Fulton C. Home Birth: An annotated guide to the literature. Division of Midwifery. University of British Columbia. ISSN 2292-2938 (Print) ISSN 2292-2946 (Online). 2013
Vedam S. In Search of a Common Agenda for Planned Home Birth in America. The Journal of Perinatal Education. 2012; 21(2): 67-71. doi: 10.1891/1058-1243.21.2.67
Vedam S, Schummers L, Stoll K, Rogers J, Klein MC, Fairbrother N, Dharamsi S, Liston R, Chong GK, Kaczorowski J. The Canadian Birth Place Study: Describing maternity practice and providers’ exposure to home birth. Midwifery. 2012; 28(5): 600-608. DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2012.06.011
Policy Reports
Asthana S, Mayra K. 2022. India's one million ASHAs win the global health leader's award at the 75th WHA: Time to move beyond rhetoric to action The Lancet Regional Health: Southeast Asia. 00: 100029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100029
Hamilton L, Stoll K, Vedam S, CCinBC Steering Council. Changing Childbirth in BC: a policy report. Birth Place Lab, University of British Columbia. 2019 https://www.birthplacelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CCinBC-Full-Report-PSBC-March-6-2019-FINAL.pdf
Kennedy, HP ed., Balaam MC, Dahlen H, Declercq E, de Jonge A, Downe S, Ellwood, D, Homer, CSE, Sandall J, Vedam S, Wolfe I. International Insights for Maternity Care in the United States. A Report Commissioned by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and US Congress, Committee on Assessing Outcomes by Birth Setting. April 2019. https://www.nap.edu/read/25636/chapter/1
Kukura E, Lucero I, Vedam S. Amicus Brief for Birth Rights Bar Association and the Birth Place Lab in Dray v. Staten Island Univ. Hosp., No. 2019-12617, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (2d Dept. 2019), November 2, 2020.
Lusero I, Reed A, Vedam S. et al. Mobilizing the Office for Civil Rights’ Authority to Address Obstetric Violence and Obstetric Racism. Invited Brief submitted to the Office of Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, June 25, 2022.
Stoll K, Vedam S, Khemet T, Tatum A, Niles P, Strauss N, Mildenberger C, Kandal R, and DeClercq E, on behalf of the GVtM Steering Council. The Giving Voice to Mothers Study Report: Communities defining quality and safety in pregnancy and childbirth care. Birth Place Lab, University of British Columbia, June 2022. ISBN: 978-0-88865-484-7 (electronic book) 978-0-88865-483-0 (print book), www.birthplace.lab/voices
Stoll K, Vedam S, Khemet T, Hamilton L, McLemore M, Cadena M, Declercq E, GVtM-US Steering Council. The Giving Voice to Mothers Study: Full Report and Executive Summary. Birth Place Lab, 2019. https://www.birthplacelab.org/giving-voice-to-mothers/
Provider Attitudes
Lefebvre K, Wild J, Stoll K, Vedam S. Through the resident lens: examining knowledge and attitudes about midwifery among physician trainees. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2018.1543258
Mayra K, Matthews Z, Padmadas SS. Why do some health care providers disrespect and abuse women during childbirth in India? Women and Birth. 2022; 35(1): e49-e59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.02.003
Vedam S, Stoll K, Fairbrother N, Thordarson D, Dharamsi S, Kornelsen J, Klein M, Liston R, Schummers L, Rogers J, Kaczorowski J. The Canadian Birth Place Study: Examining attitudes and interprofessional conflict. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2014; 14:353.
Vedam S, Stoll K, Schummers L, Rogers J, Paine L. Home birth in North America: Attitudes and practice of American Certified Nurse-Midwives and Canadian Registered Midwives. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. 2014: 59(2):141-152. DOI: 10.1111/jmwh.12076
Vedam S, Schummers L, Stoll K, Rogers J, Klein MC, Fairbrother N, Dharamsi S, Liston R, Chong GK, Kaczorowski J. The Canadian Birth Place Study: Describing maternity practice and providers’ exposure to home birth. Midwifery, 2012; 28(5): 600-608. DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2012.06.011
Respect
Autonomy and Informed Choice
Vedam S, Stoll K, McRae D, Martin R, MacRae L, Korchinski M, Jolicoeur G, CCinBC Steering Council. Patient-led decision making: Measuring autonomy and respect in Canadian maternity care. Patient Education and Counselling, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2018.10.023
Vedam S, Stoll K, Martin K, Rubashkin N, Partridge S, Thordarson, Jolicoeur G, the CCinBC Steering Council. The Mother’s Autonomy in Decision Making (MADM) Scale: patient-led development and psychometric testing of a new instrument to evaluate experience of maternity care. PLOS ONE, 2017,12(2): 1-17.http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171804
Mistreatment
Mayra K, Sandall J, Matthews Z, Padmadas S. Breaking the silence about obstetric violence: Body mapping women's narratives of respect, disrespect and abuse during childbirth in India. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2022; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04503-7
Vedam S, Stoll K, Khemet Taiwo T, Rubashkin N, Cheyney M, Strauss N, McLemore M, Cadena M, Nethery E, Rushton E, Schummers L, Declercq E, GVtM-US Steering Council. Giving Voice to Mothers: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States. Reproductive Health, 2019.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0729-2
Pressure and Non-Consent
Logan R, McLemore M, Julian Z, Stoll K, Vedam S & GVtM Steering Council. Coercion and non-consent during birth and newborn care in the United States. Birth:Issues in Perinatal Care, April 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12641
Respectful Care
Baji P, Rubashkin N, Szebik I, Stoll K, Vedam S. Informal cash payments for birth in Hungary: are women paying to secure a known provider, respect, or quality of care? Social Science and Medicine, 2017.http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0277953617304483.
Basile IB, Knobf, MT, Shorten, A, et al. “I had to fight for my VBAC”: A mixed methods exploration of women’s experiences of pregnancy and vaginal birth after cesarean in the United States. Birth, 2021; 48: 164– 177. doi: 10.1111/birt.12513
Clark E, Vedam S, Mclean A, Stoll K, Lo W, Hall WA. Using the Delphi Method to Validate Indicators of Respectful Maternity Care for High Resource Countries. J Nurs Meas. 2023;31(1):120-144. doi:10.1891/JNM-2021-0030
Mayra K, Sandall J, Matthews Z, Padmadas S. Breaking the silence about obstetric violence: Body mapping women's narratives of respect, disrespect and abuse during childbirth in India. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2022; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04503-7
Niles P, Stoll K, Wang J, Black S, Vedam S. I fought my entire way: Experiences of declining maternity care services in British Columbia, PLOS One, June 4, 2021.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articleid=10.1371/journal.pone.0252645
Rubashkin, N, Baji, P, Szebik, I, Schmidt, E, Vedam, S. Examining obstetric interventions and respectful maternity care in Hungary: Do informal payments for continuity of care link to quality?. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, February 2021; 48: 309– 318.https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12540
Vedam S, Stoll K, McRae D, Martin R, MacRae L, Korchinski M, Jolicoeur G, CCinBC Steering Council. Patient-led decision making: Measuring autonomy and respect in Canadian maternity care. Patient Education and Counselling, 2018.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2018.10.023
Vedam S, Stoll K, Rubashkin N, Martin K, Miller-Vedam Z, Hayes-Klein H, Jolicoeur G, the CCinBC Steering Council. The Mothers on Respect (MOR) index: measuring quality, safety, and human rights in childbirth. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 2017, 3: 201-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.005
Saying No Thanks
Niles P, Stoll K, Wang J, Black S, Vedam S. I fought my entire way: Experiences of declining maternity care services in British Columbia, PLOS One, June 4, 2021.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252645
Stoll K, Wang J, Niles P, Wells L, Vedam S. I felt so much conflict instead of joy: an analysis of open-ended comments from people in British Columbia who declined care recommendations during pregnancy and childbirth. Reprod Health. 2021 April 15;18(1):79.https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-021-01134-7
VBAC
Basile Ibrahim, B, Knobf, MT, Shorten, A, et al. “I had to fight for my VBAC”: A mixed methods exploration of women’s experiences of pregnancy and vaginal birth after cesarean in the United States. Birth, 2021; 48: 164– 177. doi: 10.1111/birt.12513
Bayrampour, H, Lisonkova, S, Tamana, S, Wines, J, Vedam, S, Janssen, P. Perinatal outcomes of planned home birth after cesarean and planned hospital vaginal birth after cesarean at term gestation in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective population-based cohort study. Birth, 2021; 48: 301– 308. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12539
Feldman P, Cymbalist R, Vedam S, Kotaska A. Roundtable discussion: "no one can condemn you to a C-section!". Birth. 2010;37(3):245-251. doi:10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00412.x
Ibrahim BB, Vedam S, Illuzzi J, Cheyney M, Kennedy HP. Inequities in quality perinatal care in the United States during pregnancy and birth after cesarean. PLoS ONE, 2022; 17(9): e0274790. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274790