Data on babies' safety during hospital births are being ignored
- 9 October 1999
- Vol. 319 (7215) , 1008
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7215.1008
Abstract
EDITOR—Zander and Chamberlain state that “no evidence exists to support the claim that a hospital is the safest place for women to have normal births.”1 They cite the report Where to be Born , published in 1994 by the National Epidemiology Unit. In 1997 the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy published a survey of 19 348 deaths in Britain occurring …Keywords
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