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Correction to: Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth volume 21, Article number: 388 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 26 March 2021

Correction to: BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 21, 256 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03724-6

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error to the last row of Table 2.

The table should read:

 

Number of women experiencing outcome (%)

Crude OR (95% CI)

Adjusteda OR (95% CI)

p value

 

among all women

among women recorded as not having waterbirth

among women recorded as having waterbirth

Neonatal admissionb

1287 (3.09%)

1168 (3.25%)

119 (2.11%)

0.64 (0.53,0.78)

0.65 (0.53,0.78)

<0.001

The original article [1] has been updated.

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  1. Aughey H, Jardine J, Moitt N, et al. Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021;21:256. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03724-6.

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  1. H. Aughey and J. Jardine joint first authorship and contributed equally to this work.

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  1. National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA), RCOG Centre for Quality Improvement and Clinical Audit, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 10 –18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ, UK

    H. Aughey, J. Jardine, J. Hawdon, D. Pasupathy, I. Urganci & T. Harris

  2. University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK

    H. Aughey

  3. Department of Health Service Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    J. Jardine & I. Urganci

  4. Population Health Analytics, Cerner, London, UK

    N. Moitt

  5. Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    K. Fearon

  6. Royal Free London NHS foundation Trust, London, UK

    J. Hawdon

  7. Specialty of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    D. Pasupathy

  8. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    T. Harris

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Aughey, H., Jardine, J., Moitt, N. et al. Correction to: Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 21, 388 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03871-w

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