The authors concluded that
perinatal safety of home births may be improved substantially by better adherence to risk assessment, timely transfer to hospital when needed, and closer fetal surveillance.
Not exact matches
The methodological challenges
of attempting to compare the
safety of home and hospital birth in terms
of the risk
of perinatal death.
Olsen: The third study used by Leslie and Romano for
perinatal mortality comparison is also the last study in section I: Olsen from 1997, «Meta - analysis
of the
safety of home birth.»
International research on
safety of homebirths [1]: «In 2014, a comprehensive review in the Journal
of Medical Ethics
of 12 previously published studies encompassing 500,000 planned
home births in low - risk women found that
perinatal mortality rates for
home births were triple that
of hospital births.
This has included assessment
of a nipple shield for PMTCT, introduction
of mobile phone devices for supporting
home - based
perinatal care by midwives, and development
of a
safety monitoring system for low - tech human milk banks.