Journal Issue - Volume 108 Issue 1 (January 2001)

• Editor's Choice
• John M Grant
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00061.x (p vii-viii)

Commentary

• Epidural analgesia for labour and instrumental vaginal delivery: an anaesthetic problem with an obstetric solution?
• Stephen Michael Kinsella
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00002.x (p 1-2)

Review article

• The long‐acting progestogen‐only contraceptive injections: an update
• RK Bhathena
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00023.x (p 3-8)

Original Articles

• Randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial of corticosteroids for the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum
• Catherine Nelson‐Piercy, Peter Fayers, Michael Swiet
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00017.x (p 9-15)

• Collaboration in maternity care: a randomised controlled trial comparing community‐based continuity of care with standard hospital care
• Caroline S. E. Homer, Gregory K. Davis, Pat M. Brodie, Athena Sheehan, Lesley M. Barclay, Jo Wills, Michael G. Chapman
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00022.x (p 16-22)

• A comparison of oral and vaginal misoprostol for induction of labour at term: a randomised trial
• Janice S. Kwon, Gregory A.L. Davies, V. Paul Mackenzie
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00007.x (p 23-26)

• A randomised controlled trial of epidural compared with non‐epidural analgesia in labour
• C.J. Howell, C. Kidd, W. Roberts, P. Upton, L. Lucking, P.W. Jones, R.B. Johanson
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00012.x (p 27-33)

• The Ipswich childbirth study: one year follow up of alternative methods used in perineal repair
• Adrian Grant, Beverley Gordon, Carolyn Mackrodat, Elizabeth Fern, Ann Truesdale, Sarah Ayers
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00016.x (p 34-40)

• Postpartum intrauterine pressure studies of the uterotonic effect of oral misoprostol and intramuscular syntometrine
• Y.S. Chong, S. Chua, H. El‐Refaey, W.L. Choo, B. Chanrachakul, B.C. Tai, C. Rodeck, S. Arulkumaran
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00014.x (p 41-47)

• Trends in risk factors for caesarean sections in France between 1981 and 1995: lessons for reducing the rates in the future
• Pascal Guihard, Béatrice Blondel
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00009.x (p 48-55)

• Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy and the puerperium: incidence and additional risk factors from a London perinatal database
• E.L. Simpson, R.A. Lawrenson, A.L. Nightingale, R.D.T. Farmer
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00004.x (p 56-60)

• Is maternal underweight really a risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcome? A population‐based study in London
• NJ Sebire, M Jolly, J Harris, L Regan, S Robinson
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00021.x (p 61-66)

• Effects at age nine of maternal smoking in pregnancy: experimental and observational findings
• Christine MacArthur, E. George Knox, Robert J. Lancashire
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00006.x (p 67-73)

• The effectiveness of the levonorgestrel‐releasing intrauterine system in menorrhagia: a systematic review
• Antony Stewart, Carole Cummins, Lisa Gold, Rachel Jordan, Wendy Phillips
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00020.x (p 74-86)

• The effect of an intrauterine application of two percent lignocaine gel on pain perception during Vabra endometrial sampling: a randomised double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial
• Ezzat Kozman, Peter Collins, Ann Howard, Tolu Akanmu, Alan Gibbs, Malcolm Frazer
• Published online on Dec 22, 2003
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2001.00005.x (p 87-90)