Planned Out-of-Hospital Birth and Birth Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The frequency of planned out-of-hospital birth in the United States has increased in recent years. The value of studies assessing the perinatal risks of planned out-of-hospital birth versus hospital birth has been limited by cases in which transfer to a hospital is required and a birth that was initially planned as an out-of-hospital birth is misclassified as a hospital birth.

Methods

We performed a population-based, retrospective cohort study of all births that occurred in Oregon during 2012 and 2013 using data from newly revised Oregon birth certificates that allowed for the disaggregation of hospital births into the categories of planned in-hospital births and planned out-of-hospital births that took place in the hospital after a woman's intrapartum transfer to

SUBMITTER: Snowden JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4791097 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature