Sentences with phrase «safety of home birth compared»

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.

Random control trials with regards to home birth verses hospital delivery are not ethical, and the methodological challenges of attempting to compare the safety of home and hospital birth are exceptionally tricky which is why the home birth debate has yet to be resolved.

«NCT's own detailed review of home birth concluded that, although the quality of comparative evidence on the safety of home birth is poor, there is no evidence that for women with a low risk of complications the likelihood of a baby dying is any higher if they plan for a home birth compared with planning for a hospital birth.»

The study did not compare the relative safety of home births against low - risk women who opted for doctor rather than midwife - led care.

The relative safety of planned home births is a topic of continuous debate, but studies have so far been too small to compare severe maternal complications between planned home and planned hospital birth among low risk women.

No strong evidence about the benefits and safety of planned home birth compared to planned hospital birth for low - risk pregnant women.

In order to address the issue of safety of home birth in BC, we compared selected outcomes for planned home births attended by regulated midwives with those for planned hospital births attended by midwives and by physicians.

Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the best evidence for the safety of home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital births.

Includes studies comparing the safety of home and hospital births and the safety of care given by midwives.