This post offers links to all of the group B strep-related resources on my website, as well as to some other interesting reviews and articles that are available online. This topic is one that I have been researching for a…
Group B Strep resources
Tag: GBS
Giant Breakthrough in Screening or Great Big Stressor?
Screening and the consequences of knowledge (part three)
Is it always good to know things, just because we can? Sara Wickham explores this idea in a series of blog posts about the consequences of knowledge.
Screening and the consequences of knowledge (part two)
Is it always good to know things, just because we can? Sara Wickham explores this idea in a series of blog posts about the consequences of knowledge.
Screening and the consequences of knowledge (part one)
Is it always good to know things, just because we can? Sara Wickham explores this idea in a series of blog posts about the consequences of knowledge.
Group B Strep Explained – now updated and available!
Potential harms of GBS screening “outweigh benefits”
A review published in the BMJ shows that universal antenatal screening for group B streptococcus may cause more harm than good.
New systematic review on chlorhexidine
It feels rather fitting to have spotted this new systematic review and meta-analysis in the same week that we are running our Group B Strep Explored online course! Freely availably in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, the paper by Bell et…
A tool to help parents to spot neonatal infection
In my blog post about the updated UK guidance on preventing early onset group B strep (GBS) disease (Hughes et al 2017), I mentioned that there was a call for all pregnant women to be provided with appropriate information about…
Updated UK GBS guideline
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published an update to their guidance on preventing early onset group B strep (GBS) disease. The guidance calls for all pregnant women to be provided with appropriate information about GBS to support…