Abstract This paper studies the impact of day-to-day variation in maternity ward crowding on medical procedure use and health infants mothers. Exploiting data universe Danish admissions to wards years 2000–2014, we first document substantial admissions. residual crowding, find that change provision procedures care crowded days relative less days, they do so ways alleviate their workload. We ver...

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital maternity care in Norway is randomly organised and not properly formalized. We wished to examine the extent, organisation and quality of this service. MATERIAL AND METHOD We obtained information from the Norwegian Medical Birth Registry on all unplanned out-of-hospital births in 2008. A questionnaire was sent to all maternity institutions, municipalities and emergen...

use of such nurseries varies from hospital to hospital, more especially with regard to the admission of babies born on district and in nursing-homes. Necessarily, policy is influenced to a large extent by the adequacy of alternative facilities available but gives first consideration to the prior claims of babies born in the maternity hospital, of which the paediatric section constitutes an inte...

BACKGROUND A tradition of separation of the mother and baby after birth still persists in many parts of the world, including some parts of Russia, and often is combined with swaddling of the baby. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare possible long-term effects on mother-infant interaction of practices used in the delivery and maternity wards, including practices relating to mother-...

PURPOSE This work is an attempt to evaluate the extent of knowledge concerning patient's rights and chances to execute these rights in everyday hospital reality. We have collected opinions of the patients from the maternity ward of Independent Central Public Clinical Hospital of Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. We also interested in participation of medical staff in respecting and rea...

A follow up of a cohort of 736 healthy full term children with exposure to cows' milk based formula and breast milk from donors on the maternity ward was performed. The children were divided into three exposure groups according to the feeding patterns on the maternity ward. Group 1 received only mother's milk, group 2 mother's milk and human donors' milk, and group 3 received mother's milk, don...

BACKGROUND In 2006, Burkina Faso set up a policy to subsidize the cost of obstetric and neonatal emergency care. This policy has undoubtedly increased attendance at all levels of the health pyramid. The aim of this study was to measure the capacity of referral hospitals' maternity services to cope with the demand for health services after the implementation of this policy. METHODS This study ...

BACKGROUND There are not many studies exploring parity differences in early lactation performance and the results obtained are fairly often contradictory. The present study investigated the effect of different maternity home practices in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as of physiological breast engorgement and maternal mood, on milk production in primi- and multiparous women on day four. The a...