None the less when this bias is statistically factored out home birth still comes off
no worse than hospital birth.
Not exact matches
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.
Giving
birth in an accomodating
hospital is actually
WORSE than giving
birth is a regular
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.
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.
but i wouldn't rule out low risk
birth, close to
hospital i case of emergency with a professional and registered midwife as being
worse than being in
hospital.
All sorts of hilarious errors — using one type of data (ICD10 code data from «white healthy women» and essentially comparing the best possible data from one set of
hospital data related to low - risk
births to the
worst possible single set of data related to high - risk at - home
births)-- if you use the writer's same data source for
hospital births but include all comers in 2007 - 2010 (not just low - risk healthy white women), the infant death rate is actually 6.14 per 1000, which is «300 % higher death rate
than at - home
births!»
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!