Outcomes of planned home births and planned hospital births in low-risk women in Norway between 1990 and 2007: A retrospective cohort study

Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 147-153

  Blix, Ellen ^a   Huitfeldt, Anette Schaumburg ^a,b   Øian, Pål ^c   Straume, Bjørn ^a,c   Kumle, Merethe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Midwifery care; Planned home birth; Planned hospital birth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSTOCIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LOW RISK POPULATION; MIDWIFE; MULTIPARA; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NORWAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NORWAY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870239489     PISSN: 18775756     EISSN: 18775764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.srhc.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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