A retrospective population-based study has added to previously published evidence showing that planned home birth in Australia is associated with a higher risk of intrapartum related perinatal mortality (death during labour or after birth owing to problems occurring during labour). Conducted by Prof Marc Keirse, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Flinders University, SA, and his co-authors, the study examined perinatal data on all births and perinatal deaths in SA between 1991 and 2006. The study is published in the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia...
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