Interventions to reintroduce or increase assisted vaginal births: a systematic review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To synthesise the evidence from studies that implemented interventions to increase/reintroduce the use of assisted vaginal births (AVB).

Design

Systematic review.

Eligibility criteria

We included experimental, semi-experimental and observational studies that reported any intervention to reintroduce/increase AVB use.

Data sources

We searched PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, LILACS, Scopus, Cochrane, WHO Library, Web of Science, ClinicalTrials.gov and WHO.int/ictrp through September 2021.

Risk of bias

For trials, we used the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care tool; for other designs we used Risk of Bias for Non-Randomised Studies of Interventions.

Data extraction and synthesis

Due to heterogeneity in interventions, we did not cond

SUBMITTER: Torloni MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9930566 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature