Domiciliary midwifery support in high-risk pregnancy incorporating telephonic fetal heart rate monitoring: a health technology randomized assessment
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Health technology The use of domiciliary care for pregnant women at risk of adverse outcomes. Enhanced domiciliary care comprised home visits from community midwives and domiciliary foetal monitoring, where the results of a cardiotocogram (CTG), recorded in the home, were transmitted to the hospital by telephone using modems. The frequency of surveillance was not specified in the study protocol and the patients were allowed to make hospital or office visits.
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Domiciliary midwifery support in high-risk pregnancy incorporating telephonic fetal heart rate monitoring: a health technology randomized assessment.
We conducted a health technology assessment of the care of women with high-risk pregnancies in the South Wales valleys. Women in the control arm were intended to receive conventional care with standard midwifery visits. Women in the intervention arm received additional or longer visits and domiciliary fetal heart rate telemonitoring. Eighty-one mothers were randomized. There were significant di...
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