Ina may also has a much higher death
rate than hospital birth.
The county allowed the hospital to have the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority — better known as the control board — borrow money on the hospital's behalf because the control board has a far better bond
rating than the hospital and can borrow money much more cheaply.
Not exact matches
Black Medicare patients are being readmitted to
hospitals at a much higher
rate than white patients, according to a recent study.
In our tests, the Gene Knockout Kit gave us greater
than 80 percent knock - out
rates for seven targets,» shares Shondra Miller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering at St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital, on Synthego's web site.
Controlling for the share of a
hospital's admissions of low - income patients (with Medicaid insurance) or its share of surgical admissions all added more information
than Yelp
ratings alone.
Yelp has even partnered with ProPublica to publish average wait times, readmission
rates, and quality of communication scores for more
than 25,000
hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics.
All such reputable helpers I know — especially the psychiatrists — do give service to people at lower
rates, in many instances working part - time in a clinic or
hospital for less
than they would receive in private practice.
If the
hospital you're delivering at has a
rate of 50 % or higher, there's a good chance they push them more
than necessary.
A Consumer Reports analysis of 1,300
hospitals found that more
than half of
hospitals have C - section
rates that are higher
than the national target.
«We have seen the
rates of NEC decline from 8 - 10 percent to less
than one percent since 2009, when we began requiring pasteurized donor breast milk when mothers» own milk is not available for our infants,» says Nancy Hurst, PhD, RN, IBCLC, and director of Women's Support Services at Texas Children's
Hospital.
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.
No matter that it comports with the data from Oregon that shows that PLANNED homebirth with a LICENSED homebirth midwife has a death
rate 9X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth or that MANA has found that its own members have such hideous death
rates that they have been desperately hiding them for years.
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.
And North Carolina is vying to be the homebirth death capital of the US: they had 5 publicly reported homebirth deaths last year for a
rate 12X higher
than low risk
hospital birth.
That's why it is absolutely critical for readers of Charlotte's story to understand that Charlotte didn't have to die, that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death, and that licensed Oregon homebirth midwives have a death
rate 800 % higher
than term
hospital birth.
This is the 4th confirmed homebirth death in NC this year for a
rate that is a whopping TEN times higher
than the
rate of death for comparable risk
hospital birth.
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.»
In Oregon, babies die at the hands of CPMs at a much higher
rate than they do in
hospital, comparing low - risk women.
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.
(Physician
rates are higher
than midwife
rates because
hospital midwives transfer high - risk cases to the physician service.)
I would love to see a study that compares the
rates of trauma sustained between PLANNED homebirth and PLANNED
hospital birth — I'd be willing to bet that planned homebirth is actually more likely to be traumatic
than planned
hospital birth.
In yet another example of a strikingly robust finding, planned homebirth in NZ had more
than triple the neonatal death
rate of planned
hospital birth.
That's TEN TIMES HIGHER
than the national neonatal mortality
rate for low risk
hospital birth with a CNM.
Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower
rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta
than those with planned
hospital birth.
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.
Breastfeeding
rates have been shown to be higher among babies born in Baby - Friendly
hospitals than among babies born in other
hospitals.
There is a much higher
rate of infections to new moms and babies in
hospitals than born at home.
Despite the fact that the United States spends more money on health care
than any other country — and more on maternity care
than any other type of
hospital care — maternal mortality
rates are actually increasing for U.S. women rather
than decreasing.
The perinatal (around the time of birth) death
rate of babies born in nonhospital settings is much higher
than for babies born in a
hospital, even though their mothers are supposedly lower - risk.
In some ways the situation in Israel is better
than in the US in that mothers are expected to nurse their babies in the
hospital, and there is a very high initiation
rate.
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.
In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn deaths reported to the state over the past decade for a death
rate more
than 4 times higher
than low risk
hospital birth.
Conclusions: Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower
rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta
than those with planned
hospital birth.
What floors me is how people continue to ignore the glaringly obvious fact, that homebirth, even under the best circumstances, continues to kill mothers and babies at a
rate that is far higher
than births that occur in
hospital settings.
We have the data that shows homebirth mortality
rates with CPMs is 5.4 / 1000 which is actually 7 - 9 xs greater
than in
hospital births with similar co-factors.
Planned homebirth with a licensed homebirth midwife in Oregon has a death
rate 9X higher
than term births in the
hospital.
Obviously, that is 9 times higher
than the
hospital death
rate for low risk women.
Or are she and the authors of the study so ignorant of childbirth safety statistics that they don't realize that the homebirth death
rate 400 % higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth?
That's a maternal death
rate at home birth more
than 20 TIMES HIGHER
than the maternal death
rate in the
hospital.
Which raises the question: Is Dahlen deliberately trying to trick readers, since a neonatal mortality
rate of 2.2 / 1000 is 5X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth?
(Addendum: One death is is a stillbirth, so there were 12 neonatal deaths for a
rate 3X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth.)
The study shows a VERY HIGH neonatal mortality
rate, 400 % higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth.
In Colorado, licensed homebirth midwives have a perinatal death
rate more
than double that of all
hospital birth in the state (including premature babies).
Unless the mother is too wooy or a midwife herself, it does seem that a free birthing mother is more likely to go to a doctor or
hospital if there are complications which could explain why unassisted births in either the Colorado or Oregon study showed a lower mortality
rate for unassisted
than midwife attended.
Instead there have been 13 deaths that I have heard about and confirmed for a death
rate that is more
than 3X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth.
The author seems to be implying that the
hospital is doing some sort of bad thing to the multips that is causing them to bleed and retain at higher
rates than they would have if they had stayed home.
And actually, I just checked the
rate at Pullman is higher
than the
rate at the two major
hospitals in Spokane!
To put this into context, over time, Dr Amy has presented several different lines of hard evidence that the death
rate for babies is higher in home birth
than it is at
hospitals, in America.
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.