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Planned Community Birth and Birth Outcomes
JAMA PediatricsImportance Studies examining community births (ie, births that occur outside of a hospital setting, such as at home or in a birth center) often misclassify transfers to hospitals as hospital births. Oregon uniquely tracks planned birth location at labor onset.
Marion E. Granger Howard +4 more
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Birth outcomes in teenage pregnancies
Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2004To evaluate and characterize the racial/ethnic differences in obstetric outcomes of early and late teenagers in California.A data-set linking birth and death certificates with maternal and neonatal hospital discharge records in California was utilized to identify nulliparous women (11 to 29 years of age) who delivered between January 1,1992 and ...
William, Gilbert +4 more
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2003
Birth outcomes have improved dramatically worldwide in the past 40 years. Yet there is still a large gap between the outcomes in developing and developed countries. This book addresses the steps needed to reduce that gap. It reviews the available statistics of low birth weight, prematurity, and birth defects; reviews current knowledge and practices of ...
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Birth outcomes have improved dramatically worldwide in the past 40 years. Yet there is still a large gap between the outcomes in developing and developed countries. This book addresses the steps needed to reduce that gap. It reviews the available statistics of low birth weight, prematurity, and birth defects; reviews current knowledge and practices of ...
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Age at First Birth and Birth Outcomes
Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1993Differences by age of mother in the prevalence of low birthweight and preterm delivery were examined among a population of women who delivered their first child at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1979 and 1986. Women who were less than 18 years old at the time of their first birth were significantly less likely to have low-birthweight babies than ...
James McCarthy, Janet Hardy
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Improved outcome for very low birth weight multiple births
Pediatric Neurology, 2005This study describes time trends for very low birth weight multiple births in relation to very low birth weight singletons. Two cohorts of very low birth weight (less than 1250 gm) children recruited between 1983-85 (cohort 1, n = 115) and 1992-94 (cohort 2, n = 144) were compared.
Latal Hajnal, Beatrice +4 more
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Methamphetamines and Birth Outcomes
Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2014INTRODUCTION:Methamphetamines are one of the most commonly abused illicit drugs in pregnancy, yet little is known about birth outcomes of exposed neonates. Previous studies were limited because of confounding factors: other drugs of abuse, including tobacco; poverty; poor diet; and lack of ...
Tricia E. Wright +2 more
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Prenatal Nutrition and Birth Outcomes
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2004The complex relationship between maternal nutritional and birth outcomes emphasizes the need for consistent and thorough assessments of women's diet throughout pregnancy and individualized nutritional education to promote positive birth outcomes. The purpose of this article is to examine the influence of prenatal nutrition on birth outcomes, describe ...
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Neurological outcomes following preterm birth
Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2007Neonatal survival continues to improve; for many years, including throughout the 1990s there have been anxieties that this was at the cost of additional morbidity, most particularly in terms of neurosensory impairments. Recent evidence suggests that rates of neuromotor morbidity, in particular cerebral palsy, may be declining for all but the most ...
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Late respiratory outcomes after preterm birth
Early Human Development, 2007Chronic respiratory morbidity is common following premature birth, particularly if complicated by bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) development. Affected patients can remain oxygen dependent for many months, but unusually beyond two years. Those requiring supplementary oxygen at home have increased healthcare utilisation, even during the preschool years
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Planned Out-of-Hospital Birth and Birth Outcomes
New England Journal of Medicine, 2016Jonathan M, Snowden +2 more
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