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1 Noticias News Nouvelles Volume 6 Issue 12 December 31, 2007 University of Toronto Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Research Unit at the Women s College Research Institute 7 th Floor, 790 Bay Street Toronto ON CANADA M5G 1N8 Tel: Fax: tbs@sw.ca website: Overall Total: 1276 Total this month: 40 Recruitment Package! A new recruitment package is being sent to all active centres. The package contains recruitment tips, a redesigned poster which has been translated into several languages, and a USB key. The TBS presentations found on the USB key can be used for reminding your colleagues about the study as well as updating them on the status of recruitment at your centre. Happy Recruiting! Recruitment Excellence Congratulations to Dr Renato Augusto Moreira de Sa and the team at Maternidade Escola da UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dr Mazen Y El-Zibdeh and the team at Islamic Hospital in Amman, Jordan; Prof Jan Wilczynski and the team at Polish Mothers Memorial Hospital in Lodz, Poland; PrDr Grzegorz H Breborowicz and the team at University School of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland; and Dr Frans JME Roumen and the team at Atrium Medical Center in Heerlen, The Netherlands. We will be sending a gold seal to place on your Certificate of Achievement. Congratulations on reaching your TBS annual recruitment goal. Keep up the good work! 2 Year Follow-up Make your goal for 2008 to have 100% follow-up for your centre. Informing patients about the follow-up at the time of recruitment as well as continued contact increases the likelihood of questionnaire completion.

2 Twin Birth Study Recruitment (Projected sample size of 2800) as of December 31, 2007 Jan - Jan - Jan - Jul - Jan - Jul - Annual Dec Dec Dec Jun Dec Jun Sept Oct Nov Dec Grand Goal Total COUNTRY ARGENTINA BRAZIL CANADA POLAND ISRAEL EGYPT AUSTRALIA CHILE THE NETHERLANDS UK USA ESTONIA SPAIN JORDAN HUNGARY JAMAICA BELGIUM ROMANIA GERMANY CROATIA GREECE Total CENTRES BY COUNTRY (Shaded area is prior to start-up) ARGENTINA Hospital LC Lagomaggiore, Mendoza Hospital Posadas, Buenos Aires Hospital Ramon Carrillo, Santiago del Estero Hospital Avellaneda, Tucuman Hospital Penna, Bahia Blanca Hospital Angela Iglesia de Llano, Corrientes Hospital JR Vidal, Corrientes Hospital Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires Hospital Sarda, Buenos Aires BRAZIL University of Campinas, Campinas Maternidade Escola da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro University of Pernambuco, Recife Hospital Universitario Antonio Pedro, Niteroi Laranjeiras Clinica Perinatal, Rio de Janeiro ISCMPA-Maternidade Mario Totta, Porto Alegre UFPE, Recife CANADA Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga Regina General Hospital, Regina IWK Health Centre, Halifax Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Lions Gate Hospital, Vancouver Calgary Health Region - Foothills Hospital, Calgary Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon Eastern Health, St John's SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal Toronto East General, Toronto Centres that are no longer recruiting 0 1 POLAND University School of Medical Sciences, Poznan Polish Mothers Memorial Hospital, Lodz Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk

3 Jan - Jan - Jan - Jul - Jan - Jul - Annual Dec Dec Dec Jun Dec Jun Sept Oct Nov Dec Grand Goal Total ISRAEL Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon Ma'ayney HaYeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak HaEmek Medical Center, Afula Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa Poriya Government Hospital, Tiberias Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera EGYPT Assiut University Hospital, Assiut AUSTRALIA Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich St George Hospital, Sydney Mater Mothers' Hospital, Brisbane Toowoomba Base Hospital, Toowoomba Monash Medical Centre, Clayton Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook Townsville Hospital, Townsville CHILE Hospital Dr Gustavo Fricke, Vina del Mar Hospital Dr Sotero del Rio, Puente Alto THE NETHERLANDS Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen Maaslandziekenhuis Sittard, Sittard Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Maastricht Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam UK Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham Basildon & Thurrock University, Basildon Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn Lewisham Hospital, London University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent Derriford Hospital, Plymouth USA East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates, Oakland Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix University of South Carolina, Columbia University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City Centres that are no longer recruiting 0 4 ESTONIA Tartu University Hospital - Women's Clinic, Tartu JORDAN Islamic Hospital, Amman SPAIN Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona HUNGARY University of Debrecen, Debrecen JAMAICA University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston BELGIUM Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels ROMANIA University of Pharmacy and Medicine, Cluj-Napoca GERMANY Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich CUB - Benjamin Franklin, Berlin CROATIA Sveti Duh Hospital, Zagreb GREECE Alexandra Maternity, Athens Centres awaiting first patient: [COUNTRY: Hospital, City (annual goal)] [month/year start-up package sent] ARGENTINA: Hospital Alvarez, Buenos Aires (2) [06/07]; AUSTRALIA: Women's & Children's, Adelaide (6) [09/05], Royal North Shore, St Leonards (3) [11/06]; BRAZIL: Botucatu Medical School, Botucatu (2) [06/07], Hospital Materno Infantil, Goiania (3) [11/07]; GERMANY: Charité Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin (5) [01/06]; SERBIA: University of Belgrade, Belgrade (11) [11/07]; UK: Aberdeen Maternity, Aberdeen (6) [11/06], Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool (12) [05/07]; USA: Washington University, St Louis (5) [01/07];

4 2 Year Follow-up of TBS Babies The status of the TBS 2 Year Follow-up is displayed in the following table for centres that recruited patients. Centres are listed according to the total number of recruits by country and centre. See below for the number of follow-up assessments performed by your centre! Let's aim for 100% follow-up!! Status Totals As of December 2007 COUNTRY ARGENTINA BRAZIL CANADA POLAND ISRAEL EGYPT AUSTRALIA CHILE THE NETHERLANDS UK USA ESTONIA SPAIN JORDAN HUNGARY JAMAICA BELGIUM ROMANIA GERMANY CROATIA GREECE Total % 85.2% 55.3% 27% CENTRES BY COUNTRY (Shaded area is prior to start-up) ARGENTINA Hospital LC Lagomaggiore, Mendoza Hospital Posadas, Buenos Aires Hospital Ramon Carrillo, Santiago del Estero Hospital Avellaneda, Tucuman Hospital Penna, Bahia Blanca Hospital Angela Iglesia de Llano, Corrientes Hospital JR Vidal, Corrientes Hospital Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires Hospital Sarda, Buenos Aires BRAZIL University of Campinas, Campinas Maternidade Escola da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro University of Pernambuco, Recife Hospital Universitario Antonio Pedro, Niteroi Laranjeiras Clinica Perinatal, Rio de Janeiro ISCMPA-Maternidade Mario Totta, Porto Alegre UFPE, Recife CANADA Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga IWK Health Centre, Halifax Regina General Hospital, Regina Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Calgary Health Region - Foothills Hospital, Calgary Lions Gate Hospital, Vancouver Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon Eastern Health, St John's SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal 2 2 Toronto East General, Toronto 1 1 York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill 1 1 POLAND Univ School of Medicine, Poznan Polish Mothers Memorial Hospital, Lodz Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk

5 Status Totals As of December 2007 ISRAEL Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon Ma'ayney HaYeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak HaEmek Medical Center, Afula Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa Poriya Government Hospital, Tiberias Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera 3 3 EGYPT Assiut University Hospital, Assiut AUSTRALIA Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich Mater Mothers' Hospital, Brisbane St George Hospital, Sydney Toowoomba Base Hospital, Toowoomba Monash Medical Centre, Clayton Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook Townsville Hospital, Townsville CHILE Hospital Dr Gustavo Fricke, Vina del Mar Hospital Dr Sotero del Rio, Puente Alto THE NETHERLANDS Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen Maaslandziekenhuis Sittard, Sittard Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Maastricht Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam UK Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham Basildon & Thurrock University, Basildon Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn 3 3 Lewisham Hospital, London 3 3 University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent 3 3 Derriford Hospital, Plymouth 1 1 USA East Bay Perinatal Medical Associates, Oakland Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix University of South Carolina, Columbia Texas Tech UHSC, Lubbock 2 2 Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Jamaica University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 1 1 ESTONIA Tartu University Hospital - Women's Clinic, Tartu JORDAN Islamic Hospital, Amman SPAIN Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona HUNGARY University of Debrecen, Debrecen JAMAICA University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston BELGIUM Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels ROMANIA University of Pharmacy and Medicine, Cluj-Napoca GERMANY Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich CUB - Benjamin Franklin, Berlin CROATIA Sveti Duh Hospital, Zagreb GREECE Alexandra Maternity, Athens 1 3 4