Additional characteristics: a) women with singleton pregnancies, and b) women who had given birth to one child with no maternal or neonatal pathology at the university maternity unit.
Near misses, maternal death and perinatal death occurred predominantly in the exclusively public university maternity service, which attended all four maternal deaths, 48% of NM cases, 41% of fetal deaths and 43% of neonatal deaths.
This was a retrospective study using data from 15 university maternity hospitals in Tehran, Iran.
Indeed, despite moral and legal concerns, parents seem generally to have consented for either economic or emotional reasons when a doctor offered to remove the body of the stillborn child to a maternity hospital or university for pathological purposes.
No clause in my contract – and certainly no caveat in the university's maternity leave policy – warns fellows they will be expected to forfeit hard won funding and research time.
Furthermore, the task force recommended the university enhance maternity leave practices, child-care support, and adjust the tenure clock to account for families with children.
Setting Five university hospital maternity units in France.
Obstetric outpatient clinic and maternity unit of a university hospital in Norway.
In a 2004 Brazilian Neonatal Research Network study of university public maternity units in southeastern Brazil, of the 560 patients with a birth weight between 400 and 1499 g, excluding deaths in the delivery room, 25 (4.5%) died within the first 24 hours [ 7].
In brief, the survey was conducted among all adult women, who spoke sufficient German and who were patients in a maternity ward in a university hospital in Munich from 2007 until 2008.
This cross-sectional study is a sub-study within a collaborative project between Uppsala University, Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital (PMWH) in Kathmandu, and the Ministry of Health and Population in Nepal.
