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. …

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 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. …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether cesarean and operative vaginal deliveries are associated
with an increased risk of maternal rehospitalization compared with spontaneous vaginal …

Background: The impact of delivery mode on the development of urinary incontinence has
been much debated. The primary objective of this systematic review was to compare the …

Objective To estimate the frequency of, and to identify risk factors for, pregnancy-associated
venous thromboembolism (VTE), including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary …

Background: The health care system in Canada provides essential health services to all
women irrespective of socioeconomic status. Our objective was to determine whether perinatal …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate trends in incidence and identify risk factors and maternal and
neonatal consequences of eclampsia in Canada. METHODS: We conducted a population-based …