Background: Midwives in Ontario, Canada, provide care in the home and hospital and are
required to submit data for all births to the Ontario Ministry of Health database. The purpose of …

… Contributors: Eileen Hutton and Angela Reitsma were responsible for the study’s conception
and design. Eileen Hutton, Julia Simioni, Adriana Cappelletti, Jordyn Horne, Caroline …

Objective Studies in other countries have shown that school tobacco control policy has potential
to prevent smoking uptake in adolescents. Since no Canadian research has studied this …

Background External cephalic version (ECV) is an effective intervention to reduce breech
presentation and the corresponding Caesarean section (CS) rate. The Early ECV (EECV) trials …

Background We previously concluded that risk of stillbirth, neonatal mortality or morbidity is
not different whether birth is intended at home or hospital. Here, we compare the occurrence …

Background In patients with esophageal cancer, evidence for prognostic significance of
preoperative quality of life (QoL) is limited, while the prognostic significance of postoperative …

Results We identified 13 studies. Adverse maternal events including gestational hypertension,
pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, and maternal mortality were reported in 12 studies. There were …

Background More women are choosing to birth at home in well-resourced countries. Concerns
persist that out-of-hospital birth contributes to higher perinatal and neonatal mortality. …

Twenty-five years ago people laughed about the issue of wife abuse in Parliament. Today,
after years of work by women's groups and other organizations, parliament and the public …