Rather than
using neonatal mortality (birth to 28 days) or perinatal mortality (from 28 weeks of pregnancy to 28 days of life), they used deaths from 20 weeks of pregnancy to 7 days of life.
Not exact matches
The third article by Chang & Macones (2011), which the AAP
uses to support their statement that
neonatal mortality is increased in out - of - hospital birth, was not as easily accessible.
It's conclusions about safety of cytotec
use for induction of full - term labor: «There was no difference in serious
neonatal or maternal
mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»
But duping Save the Children into
using her photo as an example of
neonatal mortality in the US is another story altogether.
The short answer is that different countries
use different definitions of
neonatal mortality and perinatal
mortality, making these numbers not directly comparable between different countries.
Main outcome measure A composite primary outcome of perinatal
mortality and intrapartum related
neonatal morbidities (stillbirth after start of care in labour, early
neonatal death,
neonatal encephalopathy, meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, fractured humerus, or fractured clavicle) was
used to compare outcomes by planned place of birth at the start of care in labour (at home, freestanding midwifery units, alongside midwifery units, and obstetric units).
The definition of low risk
used in the cohort study was based on criteria contained in the NICE Intrapartum Care Guidelines.11 The primary clinical outcome was a composite measure of adverse perinatal outcomes encompassing perinatal
mortality and specified
neonatal morbidities (box).
CONCLUSIONS: Planned home birth for low risk women in North America
using certified professional midwives was associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and
neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States.
Planned home birth for low risk women in North America
using certified professional midwives was associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and
neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States.
In the largest study of its kind,
using Centers for Disease Control data on nearly 14 million linked infant birth and
neonatal death data, term singleton U.S. births, researchers at New York - Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center found the absolute risk of
neonatal mortality was 3.2 / 10,000 births in midwife hospital births, and 12.6 / 10,000 births in midwife home births, and it further increased in first - time mothers to 21.9 / 10,000 births in midwife home deliveries.
The research, conducted by experts from BCM, the Texas Department of State Health Services, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and the University of South Florida,
used the Texas Department of State Health Services» Texas Birth Defects Registry data from 1999 - 2007 to retrospectively examine the associations between distance from birth center to a cardiac surgical center, number of newborns cared for with HLHS at each hospital, and
neonatal mortality in infants with HLHS.