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Rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean and quality of maternal and ne...
IMAgiNE EURO study group; Lazzerini, Marzia; Valente, Emanuelle Pessa; Covi, Benedetta; Rozée, Virginie; Costa, Raquel; Otelea, Marina RuxandraObjective: To explore the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID-19 pandemic by facility type among 16 European countries, comparing rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean. Methods: Women who gave birth in the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020, to February 7, 2022, answered a validated online questionnaire. Rates of instrumental birth, instrumental vaginal birth, and cesarea...
Quality of facility-based maternal and newborn care around the time of childbir...
Lazzerini, Marzia; Covi, Benedetta; Mariani, Ilaria; Drglin, Zalka; Arendt, Maryse; Nedberg, Ingvild Hersoug; Elden, Helen; Costa, RaquelThe COVID‑19 pandemic has increased the existing challenges of all health systems, and the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) worldwide has been particularly affected.1,2 During the pandemic, even among high income countries of the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Region, multiple studies, including a systematic review1,3, 4, 5 have documented a deterioration in key indicators, such as: reduced...
Individual and country‐level variables associated with the medicalization of bi...
Miani, Céline; Wandschneider, Lisa; Batram‐Zantvoort, Stephanie; Covi, Benedetta; Elden, Helen; Nedberg, Ingvild Hersoug; Drglin, ZalkaObjective: To investigate potential associations between individual and country- level factors and medicalization of birth in 15 European countries during the COVID- 19 pandemic. Methods: Online anonymous survey of women who gave birth in 2020– 2021. Multivariable multilevel logistic regression models estimating associations between indicators of medicalization (cesarean, instrumental vaginal birth [IVB], episi...