Before the current stillbirth, 3 (14%) of the women interviewed had had a miscarriage, 4 (19%) had had a termination and one woman (4.8%) had had a previous stillbirth.
We evaluated selected current guidelines for miscarriage and those suggested by Doubilet et al 9 (table 4).
Only 27 (0.3%) women with early miscarriage and one woman with late miscarriage were current users of oral corticosteroids.
Maternal/obstetric factors included age; education level (formal years of schooling); duration of current pregnancy; history of miscarriages, stillbirths or infant deaths; and if primigravida (first pregnancy).
The following data were extracted: (1) citations (author, title, journal, year, issue, volume, and page); (2) methodological characteristics of trials; (3) participants (sample size, age, causes of recurrent miscarriage, and current status of patients); (4) detailed information of interventions and controls; (5) outcome measures; (6) a summary of results; and (7) adverse effects.
I would not suggest the commission is perfect, and it is heartening that its deputy chairman, Alastair McGregor, candidly admitted in your article that the current system did sometimes fail miscarriage of justice victims and that it was important to press for improvements.
Among women with early miscarriage, 129 (1.3%) were current users of inhaled corticosteroids while 11 (0.9%) women with late miscarriage were current users of these medications.
Having had more miscarriages prior to the current pregnancies increases the risk of having another one, which probably captures woman-specific risks.
"The sheer volume of these accounts, and their consistency in describing certain types of conduct by I.N.S. officers, makes it clear that there are widespread miscarriages of justice in the current expedited removal process," Ms. Massimino said.
