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G Chamberlain

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Are we prescribing multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids? A survey of practice in the UK.

A postal questionnaire concerned with prescribing antenatal corticosteroids was sent to one named clinician at each of 279 obstetric units in the UK. They were asked whether their unit prescribed repeated courses, the indications for which these would be prescribed, the interval between courses, the drugs and regimens used and whether they would be willing to participate in a proposed randomised controlled trial. The response rate was 75%. Of the respondents, 98% prescribed repeated courses; the indications most commonly cited by units who prescribed steroids were prelabour spontaneous rupture of membranes (84.2%) and suspected preterm labour (81.8%). 70.6% of units were willing to participate in the proposed trial.

Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗

Antenatal care in South Wales 1934-1962.

The records of the Special Antenatal Clinics held by the Rhondda Urban District Council between 1934 and 1962 at the Carnegie Welfare Centre in Trealaw, South Wales, were studied. An analysis is presented of structured samples taken from the clinics of one month in each quinquennium from 1934 to 1962. The collected material is then grouped into a period covering the pre-war and wartime years of 1934-1946, and a post-war period from 1950 to 1962. Examination of these sections shows developments in the mid-twentieth century both in the recording of medical histories and in the care of childbirth in this area of Wales.

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