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Normalising Choice: An Observational Study of Australian Clinicians' Perspectives on Written Informed Consent for Vaginal Birth

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The NSW Birth Trauma Report identified flawed consent processes and poor calibre antenatal information to have harmed birthing women. Written informed consent for vaginal birth may improve carer accountability and is currently applied in limited circumstances, for example, vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC).
Harsha Ananthram   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden Costs of Hospital-Based Delivery Among Women Using Public Hospitals in Bale Zone, Southeast Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2019
Background: The Ethiopian health care system since 2005 has encouraged safe enhanced obstetrical care. However, hospital delivery has remained expensive for poor households due to hidden costs.
Melese Merga   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors influencing the likelihood of instrumental delivery success. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate risk factors for unsuccessful instrumental delivery when variability between individual obstetricians is taken into account. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of attempted instrumental deliveries over a 5-year ...
Aiken, Abigail R   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Prognostic factors for wound complications after childbirth‐related perineal trauma: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
Assisted vaginal birth is a risk factor for perineal wound complication. This review was limited by a paucity of existing research in the area; therefore, further robust and well‐powered primary research is required. Created in BioRender. Man, R. (2025) https://BioRender.com/3zsekbj.
Rebecca Man   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

A description of the methods of the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: monitoring mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
OBJECTIVE: The primary aim of the "Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: monitoring mothers-to-be" is to determine maternal characteristics, which include genetic, physiologic response to pregnancy, and environmental factors that predict adverse ...
CARITIS, Steve N.   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of episiotomy on anal incontinence following second‐ to fourth‐degree perineal tears—A cohort study

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
In over 12 000 Swedish primiparous women, anal incontinence was more common after severe perineal tears. Episiotomy did not raise the overall risk except for a slight increase in gas incontinence after second‐degree tears. Encouragingly, symptoms improved across all types of tears during the first‐year postpartum.
Mette L. Josefsson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laparoscopic cervical cerclage and pregnancy outcomes in consecutive pregnancies: An observational study

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
Laparoscopic cervical cerclage was associated with favorable neonatal outcomes in both first and subsequent pregnancies. Neonatal outcomes did not appear to differ based on whether the cerclage was placed pre‐ or postconception. High neonatal survival rates and favorable obstetric outcomes in both second and third pregnancies were demonstrated ...
Lise Qvirin Krogh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operative vaginal delivery over a 5-year period (2000-2004) at the San Vicente de Paúl teaching hospital in Medellín, Colombia Parto vaginal instrumentado en el Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl durante un periodo de 5 años (2000-2004), Medellín, Colombia

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología, 2006
Objective: Determining the percentage of operative vaginal deliveries at the San Vicente de Paúl teaching hospital over a five-year period and characterising operative deliveries in relation to the type of forceps, indications, and techniques used ...
Hernán Cortés, Eugenio Escobar
doaj  

Water birth, more than a trendy alternative: a prospective, observational study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Objective: To prospectively assess the effect of water birth on maternal and fetal outcomes in a selected low-risk collective of a tertiary obstetrical unit.
Holzgreve, Wolfgang   +4 more
core  

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