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Abstract: Home birth has attracted a great deal of attention of late, culminating in a meta‐analysis to assess its risks for mother and baby. Mothers were estimated to be 2.6 times more likely to die and babies 3 times more likely to die from a planned home birth than from a planned hospital birth. The actual data on which these estimates were based demonstrate that meta‐analysis can be developed...
ABSTRACT: In recent years nativity or nation of origin has become the focus of numerous pregnancy outcome studies. A recent research synthesis found that, although considerable heterogeneity in study designs hinders the development of broad generalizations concerning differences in pregnancy outcomes, migrant women were more likely to have better low‐birthweight and preterm birth outcomes than women...
Abstract: Recent meta‐analyses of key areas in maternity care have covered home birth and epidural analgesia. In each of these cases serious issues have arisen from the use of subjective inclusion and exclusion criteria, heterogeneity of included studies, and inclusion of studies that were conducted in settings that were not representative of usual maternity care. This latter flaw is especially notable...
Since the concept of “evidence‐based medicine” was first launched 20 years ago as a new method of teaching the practice of medicine, it has had an enormous impact on practice in many fields of health care. From the very start, professionals in pregnancy and perinatal care were at the forefront of attempts to collect good evidence systematically on the benefits and harms of health care interventions...
ObjectivesTo assess the effects of nonpharmacologic approaches to pain relief during labor, according to their endogenous mechanism of action, on obstetric interventions, maternal, and neonatal outcomes.
Data sourceCochrane library, Medline, Embase, CINAHL and the MRCT databases were used to screen studies from January 1990 to December 2012.
Study selectionAccording to Cochrane criteria, we selected...
Background
Overweight and obesity are related to maternal and infant physical health, such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and macrosomia. The purpose of this meta‐analysis was to assess the effect of physical exercise on maternal and infant outcomes in overweight and obese pregnant women.
Methods
Two researchers independently searched Cochrane Library, Embase, PubMed, Web of Science, and...
Background
The association between active maternal smoking and congenital malformations is well established, but little is known about the association between secondhand smoke and congenital malformations. Moreover, studies regarding the association between congenital malformations and secondhand smoke have not yielded consistent results.
Methods
In July 2018, we searched PubMed, EMBASE, and China...
Background
Umbilical cord milking (UCM) consists of performing several milkings of the cord from the placenta to the newborn. The objective was to evaluate the effects of UCM on newborns ≥34 weeks’ gestation.
Methods
Searches were conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Database of Clinical Trials, and the clinicaltrails.gov database for randomized clinical trials (RCT), with no time...
Background
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects approximately 3% of women in the postnatal period, but less is known about risk factors for PTSD than other postnatal mental illnesses. This review aimed to analyze the literature on the impact of mode of birth on postnatal PTSD.
Methods
Searches were undertaken of CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Scopus for studies investigating...
Objective
To better understand the epidemiology of preterm birth among Pacific Islanders in the United States and the US‐Affiliated Pacific Islands.
Methods
Systematic searches of MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, two nonindexed regional journals, and gray literature were conducted and finalized in September 2021. Observational studies published since January 2010 that documented preterm birth...
Background
The current pandemic and future public health emergencies highlight the importance of evaluating a telehealth care model. Previous studies have reached mixed conclusions about the effectiveness of remote monitoring on glycemic control and maternal and infant outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
Objectives
This meta‐analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of...
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