Planned home compared with planned hospital births in the Netherlands: intrapartum and early neonatal death in low-risk pregnancies.

Abstract

Home birth, under routine conditions, is generally not associated with increased intrapartum and early neonatal death, yet in subgroups, additional risk cannot be excluded.

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Subjects

• Delivery, Obstetric
• Female
• Home Childbirth
• Humans
• Infant Mortality
• Infant, Newborn
• Logistic Models
• Netherlands
• Pregnancy
• Registries

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Authors

• Jacoba van der Kooy
• Jashvant Poeran
• Johanna P de Graaf
• Erwin Birnie
• Semiha Denktasş
• Eric A P Steegers
• Gouke J Bonsel

Publication date

2011-10-21

Journal

Journal topics

• Gynecology
• Obstetrics

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics & Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. j.vanderkooy [at] erasmusmc.nl

Release reference

Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov;118(5):1037-46

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