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  1. We aimed to investigate the impact of a referral-based intervention in a prospective cohort of women disclosing intimate partner violence (IPV) on the prevalence of violence, and associated outcomes psychosoci...

    Authors: An-Sofie Van Parys, Ellen Deschepper, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman and Hans Verstraelen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:346
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a relatively new screen for congenital conditions – specifically, common fetal aneuploidies including Down Syndrome. The test is based on isolating freely circulating fr...

    Authors: Sara Filoche, Fiona Cram, Bev Lawton, Angela Beard and Peter Stone
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:344
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  3. Cesarean delivery accounts for nearly one-third of all births in the U.S. and contributes to an additional $38 billion in healthcare costs each year. Although Cesarean delivery has a long record of improving m...

    Authors: Kandice A. Kapinos, Olga Yakusheva and Marianne Weiss
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:343
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  4. Caesarean delivery (CD) increases the risk of postpartum infection by 5 to 20 fold. Prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) is the goal of antibiotic prophylaxis. This study was carried out to assess the o...

    Authors: Chinta Annie Jyothirmayi, Ajay Halder, Bijesh Yadav, Santosh Thomas Samuel, Anil Kuruvilla and Ruby Jose
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:340
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  5. Approaches to screening can influence the acceptance of and comfort with mental health screening. Qualitative evidence on pregnant women’s comfort with different screening approaches and disclosure of mental h...

    Authors: Hamideh Bayrampour, Deborah A. McNeil, Karen Benzies, Charleen Salmon, Karen Gelb and Suzanne Tough
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:339
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  6. The management of pregnancy-associated-cancer (PAC) requires epidemiological evaluation of the pathways of care. The aim of this study was to describe maternal and neonatal outcomes of PAC in Martinique.

    Authors: Kathleen Melan, Jean-Luc Volumenie, Gaël Wan-Ajouhu, Stephen Ulric-Gervaise, Jacqueline Veronique-Baudin and Clarisse Joachim
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:334
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  7. Following a perinatal death, a formal standardised multi-disciplinary review should take place, to learn from the death of a baby and facilitate improvements in future care. It has been recommended that bereav...

    Authors: Danya Bakhbakhi, Dimitrios Siassakos, Christy Burden, Ffion Jones, Freya Yoward, Maggie Redshaw, Samantha Murphy and Claire Storey
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:333
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  8. The aim of this study was to investigate the outcome of chiropractic management for a subgroup of pregnant women with dominating one-sided pelvic girdle pain (PGP).

    Authors: Anne Marie Gausel, Inger Kjærmann, Stefan Malmqvist, Knut Andersen, Ingvild Dalen, Jan Petter Larsen and Inger Økland
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:331
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  9. Weight gain during pregnancy has an important impact on maternal and neonatal health. Unlike the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations for weight gain in singleton pregnancies, those for twin gestations ...

    Authors: Olha Lutsiv, Adam Hulman, Christy Woolcott, Joseph Beyene, Lucy Giglia, B. Anthony Armson, Linda Dodds, Binod Neupane and Sarah D. McDonald
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:330
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  11. Widespread endothelial injury contributes to the occurrence of preeclampsia. Maspin, first identified as a tumor suppressor, plays a critical role in cell invasion and angiogenesis. Our previous studies found ...

    Authors: Ying Zhang, Hao Liu, Xinwei Shi, Fuyuan Qiao, Wanjiang Zeng, Ling Feng, Dongrui Deng, Haiyi Liu and Yuanyuan Wu
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:328
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  12. The concept of responsiveness was introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) to address non-clinical aspects of service quality in an internationally comparable way. Responsiveness is defined as aspects...

    Authors: Jacoba van der Kooy, Erwin Birnie, Nicole B. Valentine, Johanna P. de Graaf, Semiha Denktas, Eric A. P. Steegers and Gouke J. Bonsel
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:327
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  13. Psychiatric illness before delivery increases the risk of giving birth by caesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) but little is known about these women’s mental health after childbirth. In this study we a...

    Authors: Louise Möller, Ann Josefsson, Marie Bladh, Caroline Lilliecreutz, Ellika Andolf and G. Sydsjö
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:326
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  14. Because of the particularly severe perinatal outcomes associated with antenatal Zika virus infection, it is important for prenatal care providers to communicate Zika virus risks and strategies for prevention t...

    Authors: Mallory K. Ellingson, Catherine M. Bonk and Allison T. Chamberlain
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:325
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  16. Uterine artery pseudoaneurysm (UAP) normally presents genital bleeding in the puerperal period, and severe hydronephrosis rarely presents during pregnancy. We report a rare case of severe ureteral obstruction ...

    Authors: Tsukuru Amano, Shinsuke Tokoro, Shunichiro Tsuji, Takashi Inoue, Fuminori Kimura and Takashi Murakami
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:323
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  17. Recent policy and service provision recommends a woman-centred approach to maternity care. Midwife-led models of care are seen as one important strategy for enhancing women’s choice; a core element of woman-ce...

    Authors: Andrew Hunter, Declan Devane, Catherine Houghton, Annmarie Grealish, Agnes Tully and Valerie Smith
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:322
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  18. For years, Malawi remained at the bottom of league tables on maternal, neonatal and child health. Although maternal mortality ratios have reduced and significant progress has been made in reducing neonatal mor...

    Authors: Lucinda Manda-Taylor, Daniel Mwale, Tamara Phiri, Aisling Walsh, Anne Matthews, Ruairi Brugha, Victor Mwapasa and Elaine Byrne
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:321
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  19. Intermittent Auscultation (IA) is the recommended method of fetal surveillance for healthy women in labour. However, the majority of women receive continuous electronic monitoring. We used the Theoretical Doma...

    Authors: Andrea M. Patey, Janet A. Curran, Ann E. Sprague, Jill J. Francis, S. Michelle Driedger, France Légaré, Louise Lemyre, Marie-Pascale A. Pomey and Jeremy M. Grimshaw
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:320
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  20. With an increasing number of institutional deliveries, the Nepalese health system faces a challenge to ensure a quality of service provision. This paper aims to identify the determinants of client satisfaction...

    Authors: Suresh Mehata, Yuba Raj Paudel, Maureen Dariang, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Susan Paudel, Ranju Mehta, Stuart King and Sarah Barnett
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:319
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  21. Violence against women is an international public health concern and a violation of women’s rights. Domestic violence can first occur, and increase in frequency and severity, during and after pregnancy. Health...

    Authors: Mary McCauley, Jennifer Head, Jaki Lambert, Shamsa Zafar and Nynke van den Broek
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:318
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Unexplained variation in induction of labour (IOL) rates exist between hospitals, even after accounting for casemix and hospital differences. We aimed to explore factors that influence clinical decision-making...

    Authors: Tanya A. Nippita, Maree Porter, Sean K. Seeho, Jonathan M. Morris and Christine L. Roberts
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:317
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  23. Metformin is widely used to treat gestational diabetes (GDM), but many women remain hyperglycaemic and require additional therapy. We aimed to determine recruitment rate and participant throughput in a randomi...

    Authors: Rebecca M. Reynolds, Fiona C. Denison, Ed Juszczak, Jennifer L. Bell, Jessica Penneycard, Mark W. J. Strachan, Robert S. Lindsay, Claire I. Alexander, Corinne D. B. Love, Sonia Whyte, Fiona Mackenzie, Ben Stenson and Jane E. Norman
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:316
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  24. In childbirth, most deliveries are low-risk, defined as spontaneous labor at full term without special high-risk facts or complications, especially in high-resource countries where maternal and perinatal morta...

    Authors: Kayo Ueda, Shosuke Ohtera, Misato Kaso and Takeo Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:315
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  25. In an era of worldwide population displacement, recent studies have identified strong associations between social situations and perinatal outcomes among immigrants. Little is known about the effect of materna...

    Authors: S. Garcia-Tizon Larroca, J. Arevalo-Serrano, A. Duran Vila, M. P. Pintado Recarte, I. Cueto Hernandez, A. Solis Pierna, S. Lizarraga Bonelli and J. De Leon-Luis
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:314
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  26. Neural tube defects are among the most common birth defects, contributing to miscarriage, infant mortality, severe congenital abnormalities and serious disabilities. It is burdensome to patients, caregivers, h...

    Authors: Meselech Ambaw Dessie, Ejigu Gebeye Zeleke, Shimelash Bitew Workie and Ayanaw Worku Berihun
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:313
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  27. The increase in serum estradiol (E2) concentrations during the follicular phase becomes the index of oocyte maturation in vivo. When ovarian stimulation is performed to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) patient...

    Authors: Kaori Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Imakawa and Chuyu Hayashi
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:312
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  28. Presently, preterm birth is globally the leading cause of neonatal mortality. Prompt community based identification of women at high risk for preterm births (HRPB) can either help to avert preterm births or av...

    Authors: Archana Patel, Amber Abhijeet Prakash, Yamini V. Pusdekar, Hemant Kulkarni and Patricia Hibberd
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:311
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  29. The relation between grand multiparity (GMP) and the possible adverse pregnancy outcomes is not well identified. GMP (parity ≥5 births) frequently occurs in the Arab nations; therefore, this study aimed to ide...

    Authors: Ghadeer K. Al-Shaikh, Gehan H. Ibrahim, Amel A. Fayed and Hazem Al-Mandeel
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:310
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  30. No standardised system of triage exists in Maternity Care and local audit identified this to be problematic. We designed, implemented and evaluated an Obstetric Triage System in a large UK maternity unit. This...

    Authors: Sara Kenyon, Alistair Hewison, Sophie-Anna Dann, Jolene Easterbrook, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, April Beckmann and Nina Johns
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:309
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  31. Obstetric fistula devastates the lives of women and is found most commonly among the poor in resource-limited settings. Unrepaired third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations have been shown to be the source...

    Authors: Leeya F. Pinder, Kelsey H. Natsuhara, Thomas F. Burke, Svjetlana Lozo, Monica Oguttu, Leah Miller, Brett D. Nelson and Melody J. Eckardt
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:308
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  32. Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy-specific hypertensive disorder usually occurs after 20 weeks of gestation. It is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Ethiopia,...

    Authors: Teklit Grum, Abiy Seifu, Mebrahtu Abay, Teklit Angesom and Lidiya Tsegay
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:307
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  33. Obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI) is a rare but serious outcome of vaginal birth. Based on concerns about the increasing number of women who commence childbearing later than previous generation, this stud...

    Authors: Ulla Waldenström and Cecilia Ekéus
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:306
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  34. Despite marked improvements over the last few decades, maternal mortality in Tanzania remains among the world’s highest at 454 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Many factors contribute to this disparity...

    Authors: Michelle R. Kaufman, Jennifer J. Harman, Marina Smelyanskaya, Jennifer Orkis and Robert Ainslie
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:305
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  35. Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) is the only treatment approved for fetal neuroprotection. No information on its use is available in the absence of a national registry of neonatal practices. The objective of our study ...

    Authors: Clément Chollat, Lise Le Doussal, Gaëlle de la Villéon, Delphine Provost and Stéphane Marret
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:304
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  36. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is predominantly transmitted through mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). To date, it remains unclear whether the method of parturition affects MTCT of HBV. In order to clarify whether ...

    Authors: Mei Yang, Qin Qin, Qiong Fang, Lixin Jiang and Shaofa Nie
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:303
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  37. During pregnancy, the hyperdynamic physiology of circulation can exacerbate many cardiovascular disorders. Congestive heart failure (CHF) usually occurs during late pregnancy, which is significantly associated...

    Authors: Ying-Jen Chang, Chung-Han Ho, Jen-Yin Chen, Ming-Ping Wu, Chia-Hung Yu, Jhi-Joung Wang, Chia-Ming Chen and Chin-Chen Chu
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:302
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  38. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal mortality. Prevention and adequate treatment are therefore important. However, most births in low-resource settings are not attended by skilled provide...

    Authors: Ellen Nelissen, Hege Ersdal, Estomih Mduma, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Jos Twisk, Jacqueline Broerse, Jos van Roosmalen and Jelle Stekelenburg
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:301
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  39. Antenatal care (ANC) is one of the core interventions for improving maternal outcomes. The average annual decline of maternal mortality rate from 1990 to 2013 was 5% in Ethiopia. This figure was below the leas...

    Authors: Kindie Fentahun Muchie
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:300
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  40. Oral misoprostol as an induction of labour (IOL) agent is rapidly gaining popularity in resource-limited settings because it is cheap, stable at ambient temperatures, and logistically easier to administer comp...

    Authors: Marilyn Morris, John W. Bolnga, Ovoi Verave, Jimmy Aipit, Allanie Rero and Moses Laman
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:298
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Maternal and neonatal outcomes are influenced by the nature of antenatal care. Standard pregnancy care is provided on an individual basis, with one-on-one appointments between a client and family doctor, midwi...

    Authors: Zoë G. Hodgson, Lee Saxell and Julian K. Christians
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:297
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Excess gestational weight gain (GWG) leads to adverse short- and long-term consequences for women and their offspring. Evidence suggests that excess GWG in early pregnancy may be particularly detrimental, cont...

    Authors: K. Cheney, S. Berkemeier, K.A. Sim, A. Gordon and K. Black
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:296
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Understanding the magnitude and clinical causes of maternal and perinatal mortality are basic requirements for positive change. Facility-based information offers a contextualized resource for clinical and orga...

    Authors: Patricia E. Bailey, Wasihun Andualem, Michel Brun, Lynn Freedman, Sourou Gbangbade, Malick Kante, Emily Keyes, Edwin Libamba, Allisyn C. Moran, Halima Mouniri, Dahada Ould el Joud and Kavita Singh
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:295
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  44. Many adverse pregnancy outcomes in the UK could be prevented with better intrapartum care. Training for intrapartum emergencies has been widely recommended but there are conflicting data about their effectiven...

    Authors: Erik Lenguerrand, Catherine Winter, Karen Innes, Graeme MacLennan, Dimitrios Siassakos, Pauline Lynch, Alan Cameron, Joanna Crofts, Alison McDonald, Kirsty McCormack, Mark Forrest, John Norrie, Siladitya Bhattacharya and Tim Draycott
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:294
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. Process evaluation is an essential part of designing and assessing complex interventions. The vitamin D and lifestyle intervention study (DALI) study is testing different strategies to prevent development of g...

    Authors: Judith G. M. Jelsma, David Simmons, Nina Gobat, Stephen Rollnick, Kinga Blumska, Goele Jans, Sander Galjaard, Gernot Desoye, Rosa Corcoy, Fabiola Juarez, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Jürgen Harreiter, Andre van Assche, Roland Devlieger, Dirk Timmerman, David Hill…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:293
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  46. Active management of third stage of labor played a great role to prevent child birth related hemorrhage. However, maternal morbidity and mortality related to hemorrhage is high due to lack of knowledge and ski...

    Authors: Zelalem Tenaw, Zemenu Yohannes and Abdela Amano
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:292
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  47. The partograph is a vital tool for health professionals who need to be able to identify pathological labor. It is used to recognize complications in childbirth on time and to take appropriate actions. We aimed...

    Authors: Haymanot Mezmur, Agumasie Semahegn and Balewgizie Sileshi Tegegne
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:291
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  48. Late access to antenatal care increases risks of adverse outcomes including maternal and perinatal mortality. There is evidence that BMI influences patient engagement with health services, such as cancer scree...

    Authors: Charlotte Barber, Judith Rankin and Nicola Heslehurst
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:290
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  49. There is an international trend to shorten the postpartum length of stay in hospitals, driven by cost containment, hospital bed availability and a movement toward the ‘demedicalization’ of birth. The aim of th...

    Authors: Nadia Benahmed, Lorena San Miguel, Carl Devos, Nicolas Fairon and Wendy Christiaens
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:289
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  50. Zambia’s maternal mortality ratio was estimated at 398/100,000 live births in 2014. Successful aversion of deaths is dependent on availability and usability of signal functions for emergency obstetric and neon...

    Authors: Tannia Tembo, Gershom Chongwe, Bellington Vwalika and Lungowe Sitali
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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