Background: We sought to compare the effectiveness and safety of sublingual versus vaginal misoprostol for the termination of pregnancy with a live full-term fetus.Methods: This randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was performed on 200 primiparous women with normal, singleton, full-term pregnancies candidated for the induction of labor. Sublingual and vaginal tablets cont...

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Background & aim: Postpartum period is accompanied by significant changes in women’s quality of life. These alterations can affect the health of mothers and children. Considering the importance of postnatal quality of life and its different contributing factors, this study aimed to compare women’s quality of life after vaginal delivery and cesarean section. Methods:This retrospective cohort stu...

conclusions information gained misleadingly and fears related to vaginal delivery were seen as factors affecting women’s preferences for delivery. thus, midwives are required to train both pregnant women during antenatal care and all women in society about methods of delivery and to give effective counseling. results mean age rate of participants was 39.8 ± 11.8 years. the most significant reas...

BACKGROUND To determine the equality in safe delivery indices, i.e., appropriate place of delivery, type of delivery and skilled attendant for delivery, and their determinants in Iran. METHODS This study was performed using the data of Iran demographic and health survey, performed in 2000. Our sample was nationally representative and included 17,991 Iranian married women aged 10 - 49 years wh...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reproductive outcome and the mode of delivery in subsequent pregnancies after instrumental vaginal delivery in theatre or caesarean section at full dilatation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Two urban hospitals with a combined total of 10 000 deliveries a year. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 393 women with term, singleton, cephalic pregnancies who needed oper...

Su Zhang1, Xinming Ou2, and Doina Caragea3 1Cloud Platform Engineering, Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, California, USA 2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA 3Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA ABSTRACT Software vulnerabilities are the major cause of cyber security pro...