Allison Shorten

RN, RM, MSc, PhD Syd, FACM

* Winner of the 2008 Trailblazer innovation competition

Position:

• Research Student Coordinator
  

Research Interests:

• Decision-aids for healthcare consumers
• Obstetric outcomes
• Caesarean section
• Evidence-based practice
• Economic evaluation of health care
• Information literacy in nursing/midwifery education
  

Affiliations:

• Fellow of Australian College of Midwives
• Member of New South Wales Midwives Association
• Member of Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
  

Recent Publications:

Searchable RIS publications 2000 to date.

Full list of publications [pdf 22kb]

Shorten, A 2007, 'Maternal and neonatal effects of caesarean section', BMJ, 30 October, commissioned editorial
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.39372.587650.80?eaf

Shorten, A, Shorten, B, Keogh, J, West, S & Morris, J 2005, 'Making choices for childbirth: a randomized controlled trial of a decision-aid for informed birth after Cesarean', Birth, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 253-262.

Shorten, A, Chamberlain, M, Shorten, B & Kariminia, A 2004, 'Making choices for childbirth: development and testing of a decision-aid for women who have experienced previous caesarean', Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 307-313.

Shorten, B & Shorten, A 2004, 'Impact of private health insurance incentives on obstetric outcomes in NSW hospitals', Australian Health Review, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 27-38.

Shorten, A, Donsante, J & Shorten, B 2002, 'Birth Position, accoucheur and perineal outcomes: informing women about choices for vaginal birth', Birth, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 18-27.

Shorten, A, Wallace, MC & Crookes, P 2001, 'Developing information literacy: a key to evidence-based nursing', International Nursing Review, June Issue, (Invited Paper).

Interests:

• Music, health and fitness, family