OBJECTIVE To determine the long-term efficacy of nonsurgical sterilization with quinacrine. DESIGN Observational cohort study. SETTING Rural provinces in northern Vietnam. PATIENT(S) Two thousand seven hundred and nine women who had quinacrine insertions between 1989 and 1993. INTERVENTION(S) Interviews in 1994, 1995, and 1996 and review of available medical records. Pregnancy rates wer...

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...

OBJECTIVE to describe near miss maternal morbidity among women living in Paraná State, Brazil, in 2010. METHODS this was a descriptive study using Brazilian National Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS) data on all hospital admissions with primary diagnosis falling under Chapter XV of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision and/or wi...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of different screening policies for the antenatal detection of Down's syndrome. DESIGN Retrospective six year survey. SETTING Maternity units of eight districts. PARTICIPANTS Women who completed their pregnancies between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1999 (155 501 deliveries). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Cases of Down's syndrome identified before 24 wee...