OBJECTIVE To review the evidence in the literature and to provide recommendations on the management of pregnant women in labour for the prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal disease. The key revisions in this updated guideline include changed recommendations for regimens for antibiotic prophylaxis, susceptibility testing, and management of women with pre-labour rupture of mem...

BACKGROUND Several key policy documents have advocated 24-hour consultant obstetrician presence on the labour ward as a means of improving the safety of birth. However, it is unclear what published evidence exists comparing the outcomes of intrapartum care with 24-hour consultant labour ward presence and other models of consultant cover. OBJECTIVES To collate and critically appraise evidence ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of perineal massage in the second stage of labour on perineal outcomes. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS At 36 weeks' gestation, women expecting normal birth of a singleton were asked to join the study. Women became eligible to be randomised in labour if they progressed to full dilatation of the cervix or 8 cm or more if nulliparous or 5 cm...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of caesarean delivery on the incidence of selected neonatal outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS A 15-year, population-based, cohort study (1988-2002) using the Nova Scotia Atlee Perinatal Database compared neonatal outcomes in term newborns born by spontaneous and assisted vaginal delivery, with newborns born by caesarean delivery, with and without labour, using mu...

Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Incarceration on Labour Market Outcomes and General Well-Being This paper examines the impact of being incarcerated on labour market outcomes and general wellbeing using longitudinal data from the nationally representative Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia survey. We estimate OLS regressions on the entire population, propensity score matchi...

This study estimates the effect of diabetes on labour market outcomes (employment, unemployment and force participation) in South Africa using data from African General Household Survey (2018). We first examine possibility that status is endogenous through application heteroscedasticity-based instruments. Internal instruments meet underlying diagnostic expectations, but do not consistently acce...