Grant: Meetings Planning & Dissemination Grant: Reproductive and Child Health

This will be the first planning meeting of the Steering Committee of a randomized controlled multicentre trial on high dose oxytocin versus low dose oxytocin protocol for labour dystocia (the HOP for Dystocia Multicentre Collaboration). A strategic plan for the development of the multicentre trial will be established. As the principal investigators and primary site for the trial will be Ottawa, this meeting will be held in Ottawa, Ontario. The main objective of the meeting is to establish the collaboration and develop consensus for the major elements of grant proposal for a large multicentre trial for submission to the CIHR operating grants competition for 2011. Other research priorities and future proposals related to the promotion of vaginal births will also be identified during the meeting. Attendees to this meeting will include the principal and co-principal investigators, potential collaborators, research assistants and/or coordinators, and methodologists. Representatives from birthing centres across Canada as well as representatives from national and local organizations maternal and infant health will be invited to participate in the meeting. The total budget requested for this meeting is $9,735. It is anticipated that there will be 15 participants.