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Maternity Care and Consumer-Driven Health Plans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Compares out-of-pocket costs of maternity care under consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) to a traditional health insurance plan. Explores related factors including prenatal care coverage and unpredictability of costs for delivery and hospital ...
Alina Salganicoff   +3 more
core  

Genetic Abnormalities and Clinical Management of Fetal Genitourinary System Anomalies in Eastern China

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To investigate the correlation between genetic abnormalities and fetal genitourinary (GU) anomalies in Eastern China and to provide assistance for the clinical management of fetuses with different types of GU anomalies. Five hundred forty‐five fetuses with GU anomalies were enrolled, undergoing karyotyping, copy number variation sequencing ...
Jie Liang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why do women deliver where they had not planned to go? A qualitative study from peri-urban Nairobi Kenya. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND: In urban Kenya, couples face a wide variety of choices for delivery options; however, many women end up delivering in different facilities from those they had intended while pregnant.
Ahearn, C.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Facilitating Genetic Testing for Perinatal Demise: Development of a Multidisciplinary Workflow

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genetic contributors to perinatal demise are common but frequently undiagnosed due to clinical and logistical barriers. We aimed to improve access to genetic for intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD), stillbirth, and early neonatal death by developing a multidisciplinary workflow.
Mackenzie Mosera   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics Overview of Mother with Perinatal Death at Dr. Soetomo Hospital in 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Objectives: to determine the frequency distribution of perinatal mortality and maternal characteristic features in terms of age, parity, gestational age and pregnancy complications in Dr.Soetomo Hospital Surabaya in 2015.
Haslinda, Y. (Yulisa)   +1 more
core  

Ankle fracture surgery on a pregnant patient complicated by intraoperative emergency caesarian section. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We report the case of a woman in the third trimester of pregnancy who sustained an ankle fracture dislocation that could not be adequately closed reduced.
Coopersmith, Allen   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Metformin enhances external urethral sphincter integrity and restores continence via AMPK activation in a rat model of stress urinary incontinence

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
The pathogenesis of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is intimately associated with injury to the external urethral sphincter (EUS). In this study, we established an SUI model induced by double vaginal distension and demonstrated that metformin treatment activated the AMPK signaling in the EUS tissue.
Yuting Xu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Severe maternal morbidity in twin pregnancies: the impact of body mass index and gestational weight gain

open access: yesJournal of Perinatal Medicine
The objective of this study was to determine whether body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in twin gestations.
Keller Nathan A.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patients’ perception of childbirth according to the delivery method: The experience in our clinic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Introduction: The aim of this study is to identify the way in which childbirth in general, and the delivery method in particular, influenced the maternal psychosocial status and the perception upon birth during postpartum.
Alexandroaia, Camelia   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Over the edge: Empirical evidence for the cliff‐edge model of obstetric selection

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cliff‐edge model of obstetric selection maintains that larger neonates and smaller birth canals confer a positive selective advantage until labor becomes obstructed and vaginal delivery is no longer possible, eliciting an abrupt reduction in fitness.
Laura M. Watson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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