Among these, 128 were excluded due to relocation or being lost-to-follow-up, twin delivery, death of infant or mother before 3 weeks after birth.
Among these, 139 were excluded due to relocation or being lost-to-follow-up, twin delivery, death of the infant or mother before 3 weeks after birth, or severe malformations (additional file 1, figure S1).
Cases involving death include instances of postnatal anoxic encephalopathy, death from bacterial shock just after delivery, death from blood loss, death caused by ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome after infertility treatment, and death caused by uterine rupture after delivery.
In other words, many of those prosecuted for drug delivery deaths could easily have been overdose victim themselves.
Prison officer interviews focused on HIV and tuberculosis testing and treatment availability in the prison, healthcare delivery, deaths in custody, prison administration, prisoner discipline and treatment, and prison officers' working conditions.
The following available data were also used in analysis: preterm birth (<37 and <34 weeks' gestation, both spontaneous and iatrogenic), gestational age at delivery, perinatal death (intrauterine death at >24 weeks' gestation or postnatal by 7 days), antenatal inpatient nights and mode of delivery, and admission to neonatal unit.
Inclusion criteria consisted of maternal deaths and near-miss cases occurring up to 42 days after delivery, fetal death at 500 grams or more (or ≥ 22 weeks of pregnancy), and early neonatal deaths, before the newborn infant had completed 7 full days of life [ 22].
Using logistic regression, we calculated adjusted ORs (aORs) divided into deaths before delivery, delivery room deaths, deaths after neonatal unit admission before 7 days, between 7 and 28 days and after 28 days but before discharge.
A descriptive retrospective chart review study between 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2009 at the Hospital of Yaoundé of all parturients who presented: a intrapartum uterine rupture before or after admission to the maternity ward (room delivery), maternal death and fetal intra or postpartum and early neonatal or perinatal death.
There was high agreement for gestational age (in months) at time of delivery or death (K = 0.94, 0.88 0.99); outcome of pregnancy: abortion (K = 1.00) or undelivered at death (K = 0.87, 0.72 0.95); whether the complications arose in the pregnancy prior to delivery (K = 0.94, 0.82 1.00); and mode of delivery for spontaneous vaginal delivery (K = 0.90, 0.83 0.98) or cesarean (K = 0.81, 0.55 1.00).
To incorporate the delivery of death into medical training would, Wolf said, cause a fundamental shift in medical consciousness; the condoning and teaching of assisted suicide would mean, in ways both subtle and significant, that such aid was encouraged.
