Unplanned out-of-hospital birth and risk factors of adverse perinatal outcome: findings from a prospective cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In France, while most babies are delivered at hospital, emergency medical services (EMS) weekly manage calls for unplanned out-of-hospital births. The objective of our study was to describe neonatal morbidity and mortality, defined as death or neonatal intensive care unit hospitalization at Day 7, in a prospective multicentric cohort of unplanned out-of-hospital births.

Methods

We prospectively analyzed out-of-hospital births from 25 prehospital EMS units in France. The primary outcome was neonatal morbidity and mortality, and the secondary outcome was risk factors associated with neonatal morbidity and mortality. A univariate logistic regression was first made, followed by a multivariate logistic regression with backward selection.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Javaudin F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6397745 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature