Sentences with phrase «hospitals with the highest mortality»

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

Not exact matches

And this paper in the BMJ suggest low risk moms with midwives at home have a higher mortality rate than all the high risk moms in hospitals.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

Mothers who give birth at home are as concerned with the under - reported and grossly high maternal mortality rate in hospitals as the infant mortality rate.

A more recent study showed that low risk birth (home or hospital) with a Dutch midwife has a HIGHER perinatal mortality rate than high risk delivery with a Dutch obstetrician.

The following quote from the article above puzzles me to no end: «The latest CDC figures (publicly available on the CDC Wonder website) show that planned homebirth with a non-nurse midwife has a mortality rate 600 % HIGHER than low risk hospital birth.»

The latest CDC figures (publicly available on the CDC Wonder website) show that planned homebirth with a non-nurse midwife has a mortality rate 600 % HIGHER than low risk hospital birth.

That's TEN TIMES HIGHER than the national neonatal mortality rate for low risk hospital birth with a CNM.

As the recently released statistics from Oregon show, planned homebirth with a licensed homebirth midwife has a mortality rate 800 % HIGHER than term hospital birth.

I would've thought that a low risk group affiliated with a hospital program could expect to see significantly lower mortality stats than a group where high - risk cases are being tackled by underqualified care providers.

Perinatal mortality rates were similar for planned home and hospital births, but neonatal mortality rates were significantly higher with planned home births.

Second, the authors ACTUALLY showed that homebirth with a CPM in 2000 had a mortality rate 3X higher than comparable risk hospital birth in 2000.

The latest data from the CDC (available on the CDC) Wonder website shows that homebirth with a non-nurse midwife has a neonatal mortality rate more than 7 times HIGHER than low risk hospital birth.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

Some of those factors included a decline in birth rates corresponding with higher infant mortality rates, the discovery of vaccines, and a rise in hospital births.

The Baby Box Company is working with hospitals, community health organizations, and the non-profit Babies Need Boxes Ohio to give away cardboard box beds, for every newborn in the state this year, in an effort to reduce high infant - mortality rates.

It is also possible that the unique health care system found in the United States — and particularly the lack of integration across birth settings, combined with elevated rates of obstetric intervention — contributes to intrapartum mortality due to delays in timely transfer related to fear of reprisal and / or because some women with higher - risk pregnancies still choose home birth because there are fewer options that support normal physiologic birth available in their local hospitals.

Perinatal mortality was higher with planned out - of - hospital birth than with planned in - hospital birth, but the absolute risk of death was low in both settings.

The author concluded that deliveries at home attended by CNMs and «other midwives» were associated with higher risks for mortality than deliveries in - hospital by CNMs.

The authors concluded that perinatal mortality was higher with planned out - of - hospital birth than with planned in - hospital birth, but the absolute risk of death was low in both settings.

On the other hand, for a first time mother with no complications at the start of labor, the Birthplace Study found a nearly 3 x greater risk of intrapartum / neonatal loss, and the data from the Netherlands suggests that although the rates aren't high enough to affect the overall perinatal mortality rate, there are greater risks out of hospital if a complication does occur.

The authors used other birth - certificate data on maternal coexisting conditions to adjust for high - risk conditions and performed a propensity - score analysis to account for the perinatal mortality associated with planned out - of - hospital birth versus hospital birth.

Analyzing records from the National Trauma Data Bank, Haider and his colleagues separated 181 trauma centers from across the nation into three categories — low - mortality, or hospitals with lower - than - expected death rates (86 such centers); average (6); and high - mortality, or hospitals with higher - than - expected death rates (89).

The researchers identified high - quality hospitals by using two common measures of surgical quality: 30 - day surgical mortality rates and patient reported experience with care.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.

The study results showed that unadjusted complication rates were higher in hospitals in the NIS for 7 out of the 11 operations, but unadjusted mortality rates in every procedure were lower in ACS NSQIP hospitals, in comparison with NIS.

According to the study by Drs. Randy Cohen and Alan Rozanski and colleagues at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital, New York, «Possessing a high sense of purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk for mortality and cardiovascular events.»

This was done in the case of hospitals with high heart - patient mortality rates that «fixed» the problem by simply no longer taking such cases.