Sentences with phrase «home birth group»

There were two maternal deaths in the planned home birth group (2 per 100,000) and three in the planned hospital birth group (6 per 100,000).

Shouldn't deaths be expected even in a well screened home birth group?

The incidence of stillbirth or neonatal death was 1.15 per every 1000 births in the planned home birth group compared with 0.94 per 1000 in the planned hospital birth group.

Just in case anyone's wondering, the difference between the hospital and home birth groups does appear to be statistically significant (Fisher's exact test 2 tail p - value of < 0.0001).

Readers are therefore unaware if samples in the intended home birth group include those who were appropriately risked out of home birth during the antepartum period and later went on to have a high risk hospital birth (Nove et al, 2012).

In addition, one home birth group notified a death that was matched in the state's perinatal data collection.

: D I think we should make a Stouffville Home Birth group.

Review of perinatal deaths in the planned home births group identified inappropriate inclusion of women with risk factors for home birth and inadequate fetal surveillance during labor.

and «There were two maternal deaths in the planned home birth group (2 per 100,000) and three in the planned hospital birth group» — some women were referred during labour from primary to secondary care because of meconium stained liquor and were planning a hospital birth?

When the author compared 3385 planned home births with 806 402 low risk hospital births, he consistently found a non-significantly lower perinatal mortality in the home birth group.

N / A due to being unable to calculate a statistic due to zero events in the Birth Centre and Home Birth groups.

Intrapartum death not associated with congenital malformations or extreme immaturity (defined in the home birth group as an infant weighing < 1000 g) was three times as frequent in planned home births than it was nationwide (3.0; 1.9 to 4.8)(table 4).

On the other hand, some studies comparing home and hospital birth with the same midwives providing care in both settings found lower intervention rates in the home birth group, suggesting that the birth setting also has a significant effect on outcomes [2,5].

Published by Birth (sponsored by Lamaze International), the Hutton study shows lower rates of interventions such as cesarean section, episiotomy, and medical pain relief for the home birth group.

The mortality rate per 1,000 births was 0.35 in the home birth group, 0.57 in hospital births attended by midwives, and 0.64 among those attended by physicians, according to the study.

This is entirely appropriate — if home birth is ever safe that time is not in premature labor — but does bias survival in favor of the home birth group.

The 95 % confidence intervals for the rate of perinatal death for the home birth group were between 0.9 and 9.0 per thousand births, for the physician comparison group between 0.1 and 8.9 per thousand births and for the midwife comparison groups between 0 and 8.1 per thousand births.

The home birth group was similar to the group who had a planned hospital birth attended by a physician (physician comparison group) in age, lone parent status, income quintile and parity because of the matching process (Table 1).

Rates of interventions during the intrapartum period were predictably lower for the home birth group compared with both groups of women with planned hospital births.

There were fewer nulliparous clients in the home birth group compared with the midwife comparison group.

Two babies in the home birth group, one in the physician comparison group and one in the midwife comparison group had meconium aspiration syndrome.

The adjusted odds ratio for cesarean section in the home birth group compared with physician - attended hospital births was 0.3 (95 % CI 0.22 — 0.43).

Babies exposed to thick meconium who are not vigorous at birth may be disadvantaged in the home birth group, particularly in view of the trend toward increased need for assisted ventilation in this group.

In the home birth group, there was less frequent use of analgesia, electronic fetal monitoring, augmentation or induction of labour, and episiotomy (Table 2).

Thirty - one (3.6 % of women in the home birth group) emergency transports took place.

There were 3 cases of perinatal death in the home birth group: 2 stillbirths and one neonatal death.

The adjusted odds ratio for Apgar scores lower than 7 at 5 minutes in the home birth group compared with physician - attended hospital births was 0.84 (95 % CI 0.32 — 2.19).

However, in the home birth group, additional records were available with information about indications for consultation, transfer of care to a physician and transport to hospital.

The rate of blood transfusion in our home birth group was 0.3 %; in the Quebec study it was 0.2 % for births in birthing centres attended by midwives and 0.4 % for their physician comparison group.7 The rate of postpartum hemorrhage was 3.8 % at the birthing centres in Quebec compared with 4.4 % for home births in our study.

The absence of comparison subjects from these hospitals, which may have had fewer resources for managing complicated clinical situations, may have biased the analysis against the home birth group.

After adjustment for maternal age, lone parent status, income quintile, use of any versus no substances and parity, women in the home birth group were less likely to have epidural analgesia (odds ratio 0.20, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.14 — 0.27), be induced, have their labours augmented with oxytocin or prostaglandins, or have an episiotomy.