Letters
Home v hospital birth
Recent meta-analysis is misleading
BMJ 2010; 341 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c4699 (Published 27 August 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;341:c4699
- Betty-Anne Daviss, adjunct professor1,
- Kenneth C Johnson, adjunct professor2
- 1Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- 2Faculty of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1H 8M5
- 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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