Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies of planned home births attended by registered midwives have been limited by incomplete data, nonrepresentative sampling, inadequate statistical power and the inability to exclude unplanned home births. We compared the outcomes of planned home births attended by midwives with those of planned hospital births attended by midwives or physicians.

Methods

We included all planned home births attended by registered midwives from Jan. 1, 2000, to Dec. 31, 2004, in British Columbia, Canada (n = 2889), and all planned hospital births meeting the eligibility requirements for home birth that were attended by the same cohort of midwives (n = 4752). We also included a matched sample of physician-attended planned hospital births (n = 5331). The primary outcome measure wa

SUBMITTER: Janssen PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2742137 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature