title: Nursing's contribution to the literature on preterm labor and birth.
abstract: Although preterm labor and birth continues to plague us as an unsolved mystery in maternal/child health, much has actually been learned over the past few decades. Most reviews of the preterm labor literature examine the research in an interdisciplinary manner; this article instead looks at the active role that nurses have taken in the research concerning preterm labor and birth. This article will categorize research conducted by nurses over the past 30 years on preterm labor and birth, emphasizing some of the changes in nursing practice engendered by nursing's important research effort.
authors.affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. margaretfreda@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Margaret Comerford
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Freda
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009773:Obstetric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States