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- 1From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground There is a debate about the cost-efficiency of methotrexate for the management of ectopic pregnancy (EP), especially for patients presenting with serum human chorionic gonadotrophin levels of >1500 IU/L....
- 2From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Healthy infants typically regain their birth weight by 21 days of age; however, failure to do so may be due to medical, nutritional or environmental factors. Globally, the incidence of low birth weight...
- 3From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Early and frequent antenatal care attendance during pregnancy is important to identify and mitigate risk factors in pregnancy and to encourage women to have a skilled attendant at childbirth. However, many...
- 4From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Hemorrhage is the leading direct cause of maternal death globally. While oxytocin is the drug of choice for postpartum hemorrhage prevention, its use has generally been limited to health facilities. This...
- 5From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing worldwide. GDM and the risks associated with GDM lead to increased health care costs and losses in productivity. The objective of this...
- 6From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground After more than two decades of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and Millennium Development Goals aimed at reducing maternal mortality, women continue to die in childbirth at unacceptably high rates in...
- 7From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Current national and international maternity policy supports the importance of addressing public health goals and investing in early years. Health care providers for women during the reproductive and early...
- 8From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pregnant women with prior venous thromboembolism (VTE) are at risk of recurrence. Low molecular weight heparin (LWMH) reduces the risk of pregnancy-related VTE. LMWH prophylaxis is, however, inconvenient,...
- 9From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health problem with serious consequences for women's physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health. Reproductive health outcomes such as unwanted and...
- 10From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Indigenous Australians are a small, widely dispersed population. Regarding childbearing women and infants, inequities in service delivery and culturally unsafe services contribute to significantly poorer...
- 11From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground In September 2009, a folic acid fortification mandate (135 [mu]g/100 g bread) was to be implemented in New Zealand. However, due to political and manufacturer objection, fortification was deferred until...
- 12From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In the United States, an estimated 70 stillbirths occur each day, on average 25,000 each year. Research into the prevalence and causes of stillbirth is ongoing, but meanwhile, many parents suffer this...
- 13From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Reducing maternal and child mortality requires focused attention on better access, utilisation and coverage of good quality health services and interventions aimed at improving maternal and newborn health...
- 14From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In 2003, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health launched the Health Extension Programme (HEP), which was intended to increase access to reproductive health care. Despite enormous effort, utilization of maternal...
- 15From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pregnant women are susceptible to symptomatic malaria due to invasion of the placenta by plasmodium. Malaria increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes for mothers, the foetuses and newborns. The...
- 16From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Every year, nearly half a million women and girls needlessly die as a result of complications during pregnancy, childbirth or the 6 weeks following delivery. Almost all (99%) of these deaths occur in...
- 17From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Most women in the UK give birth in a hospital labour ward, following which they are transferred to a postnatal ward and discharged home within 24 to 48 hours of the birth. Despite policy and guideline...
- 18From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The proportions of preterm birth (PTB, ie., delivered before 37 gestational weeks) and low birth weight (LBW, ie., birth weight less than 2500 g at delivery) have been rising in developed countries. We...
- 19From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Eating a diet that is high in fat and sugar and having a sedentary lifestyle during pregnancy is understood to increase the risk of excessive gestational weight gain and obesity following the birth of the...
- 20From: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pregnant women in Canada have traditionally received prenatal care individually from their physicians, with some women attending prenatal education classes. Group prenatal care is a departure from these...