Planned hospital birth versus planned home birth
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Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician.
BACKGROUND Studies of planned home births attended by registered midwives have been limited by incomplete data, nonrepresentative sampling, inadequate statistical power and the inability to exclude unplanned home births. We compared the outcomes of planned home births attended by midwives with those of planned hospital births attended by midwives or physicians. METHODS We included all planned...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd000352.pub2