Sentences with phrase «outcomes than our hospital»

And a higher rate of Homebirth moms say «I understood the normalcy of birth and took care of myself and had a positive outlook», and had a bad outcome than hospital birth moms.

Hospitals that spend more on initial care following patient emergencies have better outcomes than hospitals that spend less at first and rely more on additional forms of long - term care, according to a new study co-authored by MIT economists.

Not exact matches

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

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In the study that established the difference, researchers looking at people two years after they first showed up at a hospital for care found that they scored significantly better on most outcome measures than a comparable group in the West....

Other than furthering the schism between the medical and natural childbirth camps, news that elective induction at 39 weeks prevents adverse outcomes could place a strain on hospitals.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

(Now, if there's a doctor who's doing mostly normal deliveries and getting worse than average outcomes, that's a matter for his colleagues, hospital, etc..)

When no hospital is available at all, as in the poorest parts of the world, outcomes are a hundred times worse than US hospital birth.

Surrrrre the outcomes in Ethiopia are better than the USA... That's why my patients from Ethiopia were so excited to get to have their babies in a hospital.

The most recent large scale study comparing outcomes for mother and baby reported in the British Medical Journal last month showed that for women who had previously given birth, adverse outcomes were less common among planned home births (1 per 1,000) than among planned hospital births (2.3 per 1,000).

When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.

Rates of obstetrical intervention are high in U.S. hospitals, and we found large absolute differences in the risks of these interventions between planned out - of - hospital births and in - hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analyses.

An odds ratio of more than 1 indicates that the risk of the outcome is increased with planned out - of - hospital birth as compared with planned hospital birth.

A study reported in the BMJ found that women whose pregnancies were low - risk suffered far fewer severe negative outcomes from home than hospital births, especially after the first pregnancy.

To investigate whether perinatal outcomes among interracial Asian - white couples are different than among Asian - Asian and white - white couples.This was a retrospective study of Asian, white, and Asian - white couples delivered at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital from 2000 - 2005.

So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with planned hospital births.

A randomised control trial conducted in BC [30] found home visits in early labour to be more effective than telephone triage in reducing the number of women attending the hospital for assessment before they are in labour and those attending before 3 cm cervical dilation, although the home visits had no impact on CS rates or birth outcomes.

However, they have vastly less control over the outcome than would be possible in a hospital.

«unnecessary inductions, or too early inductions, or less than good outcomes due to c sections» these are not required in hospital pregnancies «it takes a while for the painkillers to wear off in the baby...» you don't have to use painkillers in a hospital.

Does nine times higher death rate of breech babies in homebirth according to MANA stats than the death rate of breech births in hospitals count as a proven negative outcome or not?

And this inflammatory use of a «relative percentage risk» rather than relative risk or absolute risk... for example, even if assuming the writer's awkward data is valid, you can to look at infant living rates and see 99.6 % vs 98.4 %, which means there's only a 1.2 % higher risk of bad outcome from at - home birth than hospital.

Homebirth is in America as Homebirth in America does, yet the Homebirth advocates who are looking at the actually data are making excuses about the worse outcomes as they speculate that it is either due to the high risks births that were included, or because they must have been farther away from the hospital than just 5 minutes, or just ignoring the outcomes data and focusing on the low intervention data.

The actual data is suggestive of a low risk of bad outcomes for homebirthers, but they are clearly at higher risk than hospital birth!

This is an important finding because it helps us interpret the case reports of poor outcomes with water birth — poor outcomes do occur with water birth, but they are no more likely to occur with water birth than with conventional hospital delivery.

Women in the planned home - birth group were significantly less likely than those who planned a midwife - attended hospital birth to have obstetric interventions (e.g., electronic fetal monitoring, relative risk [RR] 0.32, 95 % CI 0.29 — 0.36; assisted vaginal delivery, RR 0.41, 95 % 0.33 — 0.52) or adverse maternal outcomes (e.g., third - or fourth - degree perineal tear, RR 0.41, 95 % CI 0.28 — 0.59; postpartum hemorrhage, RR 0.62, 95 % CI 0.49 — 0.77).

The risk of all adverse maternal outcomes assessed was significantly lower among the women who planned a home birth than among those who planned a physician - attended hospital birth (Table 3).

Primiparous women (t = 1.99, P < 0.05) and multiparous women (t = 5.56, P < 0.001) with a planned home birth scored better on the perinatal outcome index than those with planned hospital birth.

In multiparous women, perinatal outcome was significantly better for planned home births than for planned hospital births, with or without control for background variables.

Without control for this background, the perinatal outcome in primiparous women was significantly better for planned home births than for planned hospital births.

The I2 value was greater than 50 % for 10 outcomes (antenatal hospitalisation, amniotomy, augmentation, opiate analgesia, attendance at birth by known carer, intact perineum, perineum requiring suturing, duration of postnatal hospital stay, duration of neonatal stay, breastfeeding initiation, and greater than 30 % for a further six (antepartum haemorrhage, induction of labour, episiotomy, five - minute Apgar score less than seven, preterm birth, admission to neonatal care).

It has been shown to save government money and provide better outcomes than the array of government services homeless individuals use without supportive housing, including homeless shelters, substance abuse treatment, psychiatric hospitals, hospital emergency rooms, jail and prisons.

For this reason, the study avoids a basic problem in comparing hospital outcomes — that patients admitted to one hospital may be significantly less healthy, on average, than the patients admitted to another.

The Hospital for Special Surgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this condition.

A University of Rochester - led study, published in the August issue of Health Affairs, shows complication rates can vary as much as five-fold among hospitals, prompting researchers to call for the development of a national quality reporting system to improve maternal outcomes for more than 4 million women who give birth each year.

Researchers examined outcome data for more than 6,500 midwife - attended water births in the United States and found that newborns born in water were no more likely to experience low Apgar scores, require transfer to the hospital after birth or be hospitalized in their first six weeks of life, than newborns who were not born in water.

The article opened with «hospitals across the United States are throwing away less - than - perfect organs and denying the sickest people lifesaving transplants out of fear that poor surgical outcomes will result in a federal crackdown.

Minimally invasive surgery, which uses a few small incisions rather than one large incision, has been associated with better outcomes than open surgery, including fewer surgical site infections, less pain and shorter hospital stays.

Sam Watson adds: «Our study indicates that ensuring very preterm babies, particularly those born at less than 27 weeks, are delivered in hospitals with high volume neonatal units improves their outcome, but there could be a knock - on effect on other patient groups if smaller neonatal units are closed.

«The results of this study were of particular interest because more than half of the pregnant women with migraine experienced some type of adverse birth outcome, suggesting that these pregnancies should be considered high risk,» said study author Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., director of inpatient services at Montefiore Headache Center, chief of neurology at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Montefiore, and associate professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The study, which appears in the New England Journal of Medicine, examined records from more than 4,600 patients with out - of - hospital cardiac arrest involving paramedics from 55 emergency medical services (EMS) agencies at 10 North American sites participating in the North American Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), to which UT Southwestern and the Dallas - Fort Worth ROC Network is the largest contributor.

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«The results of our review show that should change, as people with sleep disorders may be more likely to have another stroke or other negative outcomes than people without sleep problems, such as having to go to a nursing home after leaving the hospital.»

But as we have so much fear around the unknowns of childbirth and we move away from our families, as birth has moved into hospitals bound to certain practices needed to keep their institutions running, and the disparities in maternal and infant outcomes based on race become clear, doulas are more important than ever.

There are many studies that show that perinatal outcomes for low risk women in planned home birth are as good or better than those from planned hospital births.

However, countries who have midwives as the leaders of maternity care and where home birth is considered among the norm experience better birth outcomes than countries where birth is facilitated in hospital settings with obstetricians.

Research shows that hospitals that treat more than 20 ovarian cancer cases a year and surgeons who operate on more than 10 cases a year have significantly better patient outcomes than lower volume hospitals and surgeons, according to the Valley Health System.

The doctors at Green Forest Veterinary Hospital believe that in some cases using herbal remedies produces improved outcomes and fewer side effects than many pharmaceutical products.

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Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.