MEDIA COVERAGE

Tsulukidze M, Grande SW, Thompson R, Rudd K, Elwyn G. Patients covertly recording clinical encounters: threat or opportunity? A qualitative analysis of online texts. PLoS One. 2015;10(5):e0125824.

ABC News Online: Recording your doctor's appointment could become the next frontier ... (25 March 2019)
The Conversation: Missed something the doctor said? Recording your appointments gives you ... (25 Mar 2019)
Channel News Asia: 'Should you record your consultation with your doctor?' (29 Mar 2019)
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Right For Me

New Hampshire Union Leader: Dartmouth Institute studies doctor-patient conversations regarding birth control (22 Sep 2015)

Birthplace

Brisbane's Child: 'Maternity care options' (Jun 2013)
Brisbane Times Online: 'Planning for a baby?' (May 2013)
PakMag: 'Birthplace: New online tool' (Mar 2012)
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners QLD Newsletter: 'New online tool for mums-to-be' (Feb 2012)
4EB Community Ethnic Radio: Radio segment (Jan 2012)
B Magazine: 'Online tool for future mums' (Jan 2012)
The Sunday Mail: 'Birth site born out of need' (Dec 2011)
ABC Capricornia - Afternoons with Georgia Stynes: Radio segment (Nov 2011)
ABC Gold Coast - Breakfast with Tim Cox: Radio segment (Nov 2011)
Gold Coast Bulletin: 'Where to have your baby' (Nov 2011)
Metro North Brisbane Medicare Local LocalLink: 'New online tool for mums-to-be' (Nov 2011)

Having a Baby in Queensland survey facility level reports????????

Townsville Bulletin: 'Five years of bountiful baby birth business' (Jul 2013)
Western Star: 'Good news for prospective mums' (Jul 2013)
North West Star: 'Call for mums to volunteer for maternity survey' (Mar 2012)
Gympie Times: 'Gympie's hospital praised by mothers' (Mar 2012)
Gold Coast Bulletin: 'Mums back birth unit' (Mar 2012)
Queensland Times: 'Mums being sought to take part in survey' (Mar 2012)

Stevens G, Thompson R, Kruske S, Watson B, Miller YD. What are pregnant women told about models of maternity care in Australia? A retrospective study of women's reports. Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Oct;97(1):114-21.

AusDoc: 'Biased' GPs avoid mentioning midwives' (16 Jul 2014)
North Lakes Messenger: Pregnant women not being told of their options for maternity care (Aug 2013)
Sunshine Coast Daily: Queensland woman want more info, maternity study finds (Jul 2013)
Warwick Daily News: Women in the dark on maternity options (Jul 2013)
Gladstone Observer: Women feeling let down by GPs (Jul 2013)

Donnelly KZ, Foster TC, Thompson R. What matters most? The content and concordance of patients' and providers' information priorities for contraceptive decision making. Contraception. 2014 Sep;90(3):280-7.

• NPR: 'Doctors Don't Know What Women Want To Know About Birth Control' (10 Jun 2014)
• WBUR News: 'Doctors Don't Know What Women Want To Know About Birth Control' (10 Jun 2014)
• KPBS: 'Doctors Don’t Know What Women Want To Know About Birth Control' (10 Jun 2014)
• Health News Florida: 'Doctors Don't Know What Women Want To Know About Birth Control' (10 Jun 2014)
• New Hampshire Union Leader: 'Dartmouth study says women and doctors differ on what's important ...' (Jun 2014)
  
• Jersey Tribune: 'Women and health-care providers differ on what matters most about contraception' (Jun 2014)
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Thompson R, Miller YD. Birth control: to what extent do women report being informed and involved in decisions about pregnancy and birth procedures? BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2014 Feb 7;14:62.

• The Conversation: 'Birth intervention – and harm – more likely in private hospitals' (22 May 2014)
  
• The Conversation: 'Women’s magazines could play a role in promoting natural births' (1 May 2015)
• The Epoch Times: 'Women's magazines could play a role in promoting natural births' (1 May 2015)
• Sydney Morning Herald: 'Doctors drive rising rate of caesareans, surveys find' (20 March 2014)

Walsh T, Barr PJ, Thompson R, Ozanne E, O'Neill C, Elwyn G. Undetermined impact of patient decision support interventions on healthcare costs and savings: systematic review. BMJ. 2014 Jan 23;348:g188.

• Health Affairs Blog: 'Shared Decision Making And The Use Of Patient Decision Aids' (17 Dec 2014)
  
• Evidence Live/BMJ Clinical Evidence Blog: 'Better Decisions Require Better Informed Patients' (25 May 2016)
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Mulherin K, Miller YD, Barlow FK, Diedrichs PC, Thompson R. Weight stigma in maternity care: women's experiences and care providers' attitudes. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2013 Jan 22;13:19.

• New York Times Magazine: 'When You’re Told You’re Too Fat to Get Pregnant' (18 Jun 2019)
  
• Huffington Post: 'Fat-Shaming The Pregnant: How The Medical Community Fails Overweight Moms' (5 Sep 2018)
• Healthline: 'Why Some Pregnant Women May Not Need to ‘Eat for Two’ to Stay Healthy' (9 Oct, 2019)
• U.S. News & World Report: 'What Not to Say to a Pregnant Woman' (18 Nov 2014)
• 2MCE Orange: Radio segment (21 Feb 2013)
• The Courier-Mail: 'QCMB research finds overweight mums-to-be are treated worse ...' (20 Feb 2013)
• Adelaide Advertiser: 'Image a weighty issue for doctors' (25 Feb 2013)
• Fraser Coast Chronicle: 'Hospital ill-treats obese' (25 Feb 2013)
• City South News: 'Big Problem' (28 Feb 2013)

Miller YD, Prosser SJ, Thompson R. Going public: do risk and choice explain differences in caesarean birth rates between public and private places of birth in Australia?. Midwifery. 2012 Oct;28(5):627-35.

The Conversation: 'Women’s magazines could play a role in promoting natural births' (1 May 2015)
The Epoch Times: 'Women's magazines could play a role in promoting natural births' (1 May 2015)
The Australian: 'Birth' (18 March 2014)
Sydney Morning Herald: 'Doctors drive rising rates of caesareans, surveys find' (20 Mar 2014)
The Age: 'Doctors driving rising rates of caesareans, surveys find' (20 Mar 2014)
Canberra Times: 'Doctors driving rising rates of caesareans, surveys find' (20 Mar 2014)
Canberra Times: 'Doctors hold key to growth in caesareans' (20 Mar 2014)
Medical Observer (now AusDoc): 'Not too posh to push' (13 Mar 2014)
Medical Observer (now AusDoc): 'Women being left out of antenatal decisions' (20 Mar 2014)
The Age: 'Doctors 'drive' caesareans' (19 Jan 2012)
Sunday Mail: 'Doctors behind caesarean rise' (22 Jan 2012)
Queensland Times: 'Research explores the rise in C-section rates' (20 Jan 2012)
Toowoomba Chronicle: 'Women prefer natural births' (21 Jan 2012)
North West News: 'Too posh to push' (25 Jan 2012)
Albury-Wodonga Border Mail: 'Doctors push up caesarean rates' (19 Jan 2012)
Launceston Examiner: 'Caesarean births not rising' (19 Jan 2012)
Townsville Bulletin: 'Caesarean myth dispelled' (19 Jan 2012)
Cairns Post: 'Caesarean birth myth dispelled by study' (19 Jan 2012)
Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser: 'Caesarean myth dispelled by new study' (19 Jan 2012)
Shepparton News: 'C-section belief dispelled' (19 Jan 2012)
Geelong Advertiser: 'Vanity not to blame' (19 Jan 2012)

Also covered by the folllowing outlets on 20 March 2014: Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail, The Esperance Express, The Advocate - Hepburn, The Queanbeyan Age, The Guyra Argus, The Rural, Hills News, Moree Champion, The Recorder, Central Western Daily, Port Lincoln Times, Port Macquarie News, North West Star, The Northern Daily Leader, The Daily Advertiser, The Border Mail, Bunbury Mail, Sunraysia Daily, The Courier, The Star, Newcastle Herald, Narooma News, Eyre Peninsula Tribune, Parkes Champion-Post, The Advocate, Forbes Advocate, Coastal Leader, Busselton-Dunsborough Mail, Port Stephens Examiner, The Islander, Harden Murrumburrah Express, Goulburn Post, Great Lakes Advocate, The Naracoorte Herald, The Irrigator, Northern Argus, Murray Mail, Camden Haven Courier, Daily Liberal, Town & Country Magazine, The Flinders News, Border Chronicle, The Transcontinental, Tenterfield Star, Penrith City Gazette, Braidwood Times, The Times - On The Coast, Inverell Times, Merredin Wheatbelt Mercury, Milton Ulladulla Times, Muswellbrook Chronicle, Myall Coast Nota, Namoi Valley Independent, The Moyne Gazette, Mudgee Guardian, Gloucester Advocate, Parramatta Sun, Magnet, Goondiwindi Argus, Barossa Herald, Eastern Riverina Chronicle, Fairfield City Champion, Latrobe Valley Express, The Murray Valley Standard, Dungog Chronicle, The Wagin Argus, Ararat Advertiser, Oberon Review, The Ridge News, Canowindra News, Hunter Valley News, Summit Sun, Cessnock Advertiser, Grenfell Record, Narromine News, Hawkesbury Gazette, Guardian News, Camden-Narellan Advertiser, Central Midland & Coastal Advocate, St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, Nyngan Observer, Glen Innes Examiner, The Northern Times, The Macleay Argus, Whyalla News, Cowra Guardian, Katherine Times, St Marys-Mt Druitt Star, West Coast Sentinel, Roxby Downs Sun, Manning River Times, Western Advocate, South West Advertiser, Bombala Times, Southern Weekly, Yass Tribune, Southern Highland News, Merimbula News Weekly, Bega District News, The Young Witness, Western Magazine, Bay Post, The Scone Advocate, South Coast Register, Blue Mountains Gazette, Cooma-Monaro Express, Stawell Times-News, Bendigo Advertiser, Rouse Hill-Stanhope Gardens News, Blayney Chronicle, Walcha News, The Armidale Express, Kiama Independent, Boorowa News, Crookwell Gazette, Southern Cross, The Standard, Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser, The Observer, Blacktown Sun, Cootamundra Herald, Wauchope Gazette, The Riverina Leader, The Area News, The Wimmera Mail-Times, Wingham Chronicle, Wollondilly Advertiser, Lithgow Mercury, Bayside Bulletin, Wellington Times, The Singleton Argus, The Maitland Mercury, Lakes Mail, Liverpool City Champion, Bellingen Shire Courier-Sun, North Queensland Register, Farm Weekly, The Land, Stock & Land, The Australian Dairy Farmer, Stock Journal, Brisbane Times, Queensland Country Life, Mandurah Mail, Augusta Margaret River Mail, Collie Mail, WA Today, The Avon Valley Advocate.