objective: to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice variables and obstetric fistula status in ethiopia. materials and methods: the most recent ethiopia demographic and health survey conducted in 2005 is used to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice and obstetric fistula. we use both univariate and ...

unfortunately, the prevalence of cesarean section has increased in recent years. whereas awareness of the prevalence and causes is inevitable for planning and effective interventions, so aim of this study has designed and conducted for reviewing of systematic prevalence and caesarean causes in iran. in this meta-analysis, the required information have been collected using several keywords which...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a medical as well as obstetric challenge, which needs person-centered management. The timing of delivery of women with GDM is discussed by various obstetric professional bodies. We highlight pertinent medical, obstetric, and psychosocial factors which may influence the timing of delivery in women with GDM. This commentary proposes a person-centered approac...

This paper focuses on childbirth in Japan's aristocratic households during the Heian period (794-1185). Drawing on various sources, including court diaries, visual sources, literary records, and Japan's first medical collection, with its assortment of gynaecological and obstetric prescriptions, as well as Buddhist and other ritual texts, this short excursion into the cultural history of childbi...

We investigate the effect of immigration on the labor supply of skilled native women. We present a simple time-use model that predicts that a reduction in the price of household services (such as child rearing, cooking or cleaning) should lead to an increase in the labor supply of skilled women with family responsibilities (such as caring for young children, elderly dependents, or a retired hus...

Detailed Evidence for Patient Safety Indicators Decubitus Ulcer........................................................................................2 Failure to Rescue.....................................................................................5 Selected Infections Due to Medical Care.......................................................7 Postoperative Respiratory Failure..............

Intervention Women were allocated to intensive (n=85) or conventional (n=91) treatment. Intensive treatment consisted of provision of information and conversation regarding previous obstetric experiences, feelings, and misconceptions; routine obstetric check ups; and cognitive treatment. A midwife appointment and visits to the obstetric ward were recommended for information about pain relief an...

AIMS To determine whether the lower rates of obstetric interventions in Maori and Pacific Island women from the New Zealand Ministry of Health obstetric procedures report in 1999 existed also in National Women's Hospital (NWH), Auckland data and if so whether they persisted after controlling for parity and obstetric risk. METHODS The study population included 43,367 singleton, cephalic delive...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between uterine fibroids and adverse obstetric outcomes. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of 112,403 deliveries from 14 provinces and 39 different hospitals in 2011 in mainland China. We compared pregnancy outcomes in women with and without uterine fibroids who underwent detailed second trimester obstetric ultrasonography during 18 t...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Obstetric anesthesia workload demand in Israel has increased due to both an increase in the requests for labor analgesia and a marked increase in the cesarean delivery rate. We propose a new workload-driven performance indicator, the Obstetric Anesthesia Activity Index (OAAI), to serve as a single denominator of obstetric anesthesia activity to enable direct comparison ...