Letter

Home v hospital birth

Recent meta-analysis is misleading

BMJ 2010; 341 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c4699 (Published 27 August 2010)
Cite this as: BMJ 2010;341:c4699

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  1. Betty-Anne Daviss, adjunct professor1,
  2. Kenneth C Johnson, adjunct professor2
  1. 1Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  2. 2Faculty of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1H 8M5
  1. badaviss{at}hotmail.com

    Delamothe queries why the authors of an American meta-analysis on planned home and hospital birth shifted focus from perinatal mortality to neonatal mortality “despite having relevant data for these calculations on only 9% of their total sample.”1 2

    The authors found no difference in perinatal mortality between planned home and planned hospital births when they included the Dutch study, …

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