| Name: | Klein, Dr. Michael |
| Degree: | MD |
| Academic Rank: | Emeritus Professor |
| Academic Department: | Family Practice & Pediatrics |
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| Address: | Centre for Community Child Health Research Room L408 - 4500 Oak Street Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1 |
| Phone: | 604 875 2000 ext. 5078 |
| Fax: | 604 875 3569 |
| Email: | mklein@interchange.ubc.ca |
| Research Interests: | Role of Attitudes & Beliefs of Maternity Care Providers and Women Cesarean Section on Request and Old & New Maternity Care Technologies Role of Maternity Care in Sustainable Community Development Pitfalls in Evidence-based Medicine |
| Research Projects: | Determining the attitudes of women and maternity care providers toward birth: conflict, confusion, and concordance (National Study funded by CIHR) Pilot Project - Informed Decision Making: the interaction between sustainable maternity care services and sustainability (Provincial Study funded by the Vancouver Foundation) Informed Decision Making: the interaction between sustainable maternity care services and sustainability (Provincial Study funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research) Pilot Project - Attitudes and beliefs of obstetrics residents towards birth |
| Selected Publications: | Klein MC. Quick Fix Culture: The cesarean-section-on-demand debate. Guest editorial Birth 2004; 32(3):161-4. Reime B, Klein MC, Kelly A, et al. Do maternity care provider groups have different attitudes toward birth? BJOC—An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2004; 111:1388-93. Klein MC. Obstetrician’s fear of birth: how did it happen? Birth 2005; 32(3):207-8. Klein MC, Kaczorowski J, Firoz T, et al. Urinary and sexual outcomes in women experiencing vaginal compared with cesarean births. JOGC 2005; 27(4):313-20. Klein MC, Sakala C, Simkin P, Davis-Floyd R, Rooks JP, Pincus J. Why Do Women Go Along with This Stuff? Birth 2006; 33:245-50. Janssen PA, Still DK, Klein MC, Singer J, Carty EA, Liston RM, et al. Labor Assessment and Support at Home versus Telephone Triage: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2006; 108(6):1463-9. Klein MC. Pushing in the wrong direction. Commentary. Birth 2006; 33(3):251-3. Klein MC. Invited editorial. Does epidural analgesia increase the cesarean section rate? Can Fam Phys 2006; 52:419-21. Kotaska AJ, Klein MC, Liston RM. Epidural analgesia associated with low-dose oxytocin augmentation increases cesarean births: a critical look at the external validity of randomized trials. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2006; 194(3):809-14. Press J, Klein MC, von Dadelszen P. Mode of delivery and pelvic floor dysfunction: a systematic review of the literature on urinary and fecal incontinence and sexual dysfunction by mode of delivery. Medscape Clinical Update from WEBMD Ob/GYN and Women’s Health 2006. |
| Other: | Recent Awards 2006: John Kennell & Marshall Klaus Founders Award DONA International Recognizes excellence in research in doula and perinatal care 2004: Family Physician Researcher of the Year, CFPC 2003: Wood Award Lifetime Achievement Primary Care Research North American Primary Care Research Group |
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