
Elizabeth Friedman
· Assistant Professor of BusinessHarvard University · Marketing
Active 1926–2023
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Research topics
- Medicine
- Obstetrics
- Computer Science
- Internal medicine
- Database
- Nursing
- Law
Selected publications
Perils of the new labor management guidelines
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2014-09-16 · 167 citations
reviewSenior authorMisguided guidelines for managing labor
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2015-04-16 · 69 citations
articleSenior authorClinical evaluation of labor: an evidence- and experience-based approach
Journal of Perinatal Medicine · 2020 · 31 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingDuring labor mother and fetus are evaluated at intervals to assess their well-being and determine how the labor is progressing. These assessments require skillful physical diagnosis and the ability to translate the acquired information into meaningful prognostic decision-making. We describe a coordinated approach to the assessment of labor. Graphing of serial measurements of cervical dilatation and fetal station creates "labor curves," which provide diagnostic and prognostic information. Based o…
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2023 · 28 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingThe assessment of labor: a brief history
Journal of Perinatal Medicine · 2017-03-22 · 25 citations
reviewSenior authorIn the 1930s, investigators in the US, Germany and Switzerland made the first attempts to quantify the course of labor in a clinically meaningful way. They emphasized the rupture of membranes as a pivotal event governing labor progress. Attention was also placed on the total number of contractions as a guide to normality. Beginning in the 1950s, Friedman determined that changes in cervical dilatation and fetal station over time were the most useful parameters for the assessment of labor progress…
Recent grants
NIH · $1.3M · 1998
Frequent coauthors
- 135 shared
Kenneth R. Niswander
- 134 shared
David B. Hoover
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- 134 shared
Helen Pietrowski
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- 134 shared
Milton Westphal
- 90 shared
Marlene R. Sachtleben
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
- 32 shared
Albert A. Plentl
- 19 shared
Donald L. Hutchinson
University of Belgrade
- 17 shared
W. A. Little
Education
- 1963
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Columbia University Columbia College
- 1959
MedScD (Biostatistics and Uterine Physiology), Obstetrics and Gynecology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- 1951
MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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