Background: The rate of elective primary cesarean delivery continues to rise, owing in part
to the widespread perception that the procedure is of little or no risk to healthy women. …

ContextThe World Health Organization defines preterm birth as birth at less than 37 completed
gestational weeks, but most studies have focused on very preterm infants (birth at <32 …

Background Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal mortality and
morbidity worldwide. Several recent publications have noted an increasing trend in incidence …

Background: Studies of planned home births attended by registered midwives have been
limited by incomplete data, nonrepresentative sampling, inadequate statistical power and the …

OBJECTIVE: To determine if the rates of pregnancy complications, preterm birth, small for
gestational age, perinatal mortality, and serious neonatal morbidity are higher among mothers …

Objectives This guideline provides new recommendations pertaining to the application and
documentation of fetal surveillance in the antepartum and intrapartum period that will …

Objective To review the spot protein:creatinine ratio and albumin:creatinine ratio as diagnostic
tests for significant proteinuria in hypertensive pregnant women. Design Systematic review…

OBJECTIVE To estimate the maternal morbidity associated with cesarean deliveries
performed at term without labor compared with morbidity associated with spontaneous labor. …

The purpose of this study is to describe the maternal complications of placenta previa. A
population-based retrospective cohort study including all women delivered in the province of …

Objective: To identify neonatal complications associated with placenta previa. Methods:
This was a population-based, retrospective cohort study involving all singleton deliveries in …