Sentences with phrase «alternative places of birth»

They stated that more research is needed to ascertain the safety of alternative places of birth within Australia.

More research is warranted into the safety and costs of alternative places of birth within Australia.

More research is warranted into the safety of alternative places of birth within Australia.

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The OB / GYN and CNM's in America are overburdened by patient loads, (According to Amnesty International there are 9.6 OB / GYN's and 0.4 CNM's available per every 1,000 births) having better trained CPM's seems like a nice solution for that problem, in fact why not have them work collaboratively with OB / GYN's, maybe we can all work together to find a common ground where evidenced based practice take place in the hospital to support physiologic birth, since the lack of such practice is what turns many women away looking for alternative choices.

At this point, I had given birth to a healthy baby boy following Molly's stillbirth, and I was able to find better organic or natural alternatives to use in place of the conventional brands we had been using... except when it came to laundry detergent.

We used multiple regression to estimate the differences in total cost between the settings for birth and to adjust for potential confounders, including maternal age, parity, ethnicity, understanding of English, marital status, BMI, index of multiple deprivation score, parity, and gestational age at birth, which could each be associated with planned place of birth and with adverse outcomes.12 For the generalised linear model on costs, we selected a γ distribution and identity link function in preference to alternative distributional forms and link functions on the basis of its low Akaike's information criterion (AIC) statistic.

A broader economic approach to the measurement of outcomes, such as stated preference discrete choice modelling, might have captured women's preferences for alternative attributes of planned place of birth and might have been more informative to decision makers, 28 but this was not practically possible given the anonymity involved in the study design and the available resources.

In this study of the cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in England in women at low risk of complications before the onset of labour, we found that the cost of intrapartum and after birth care, and associated related complications, was less for births planned at home, in a free standing midwifery unit, or in an alongside midwifery unit compared with planned births in an obstetric unit.

Cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in woman at low risk of complications: evidence from the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study