Background: Preterm labour occurs in about 10% of all pregnancies and is the most
important cause of premature birth. Women with preterm labour are admitted to hospital to …

Prenatal hospitalisation has not been shown to reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality, yet
it is still the treatment of choice for women who experience preterm labour. Home care …

Objective To compare a shortened hospital stay with midwife visits at home to usual hospital
care after delivery. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Maternity unit of a Swiss …

We assessed the effectiveness of the home-visiting system in reducing the care provided in
maternity units, especially hospitalization, and attempted to establish whether this system …

Objectives To compare the cost effectiveness of early postnatal discharge and home
midwifery support with a traditional postnatal hospital stay. Design Cost minimisation …

Objective: To compare childbirth outcomes of women prospectively randomized to receive
early labour assessment and support either through a home visit or by telephone triage …

Objectives: Preterm labor and delivery are associated with various short-and long-term
complications in neonates and infants. This research aimed to look at the trends in preterm …

Objective: To determine whether hospitalization of women with arrested preterm labor has
an effect on delivery at 36 weeks or greater when compared with women discharged home …

Spontaneous preterm delivery is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, but
there is little consensus on the best way to manage women with signs and symptoms of …

Objective: To evaluate a program that provides in-home care to women with pregnancies
threatened by preterm delivery (including preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of …