perinatal mortality

The survival of the baby is reduced and high perinatal mortality rates between 40-95% have been reported.

Despite this, it has the lowest perinatal mortality rate of any hospital in Victoria.

The average perinatal mortality rate has decreased since 2003.

Perinatal mortality rates are affected by a broad range of biological, social, and medical factors.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the women transferred to consultant care had the highest perinatal mortality rates.

During his practice years he participated in regional health care planning and published a perinatal mortality review study (1976).

However, the perinatal mortality of monochorionic twins is fairly low.

Their report also noted that intrapartum-related perinatal mortality was low in all settings.

Conversely, some studies demonstrate a higher perinatal mortality rate with assisted home births.

Failure to treat these diseases promptly can lead to maternal or perinatal mortality.

Crude perinatal mortality rates and rates adjusted for case mix.

Death immediately before or after birth (perinatal mortality).

Perinatal mortality rates should be adjusted for case mix and referral patterns to get a meaningful result.

The overall perinatal mortality rate associated with untreated syphilis, for example, approached 40%.

The overall perinatal mortality after open surgery has been estimated to be approximately 6%, according to a study in the United States 2003.

But when the researchers compared perinatal mortality among babies of equal weight, they found that the survival rates were "nearly identical."

Perinatal mortality rate of placenta praevia is 3-4 times higher than normal pregnancies.

Perinatal mortality is lowest at 40 weeks' gestation and does not increase until after 42 weeks, and then only slightly.

The perinatal mortality figure still remains controversial.

Pre-eclampsia also doubles the risk of perinatal mortality.

In contrast, the women who were booked at general practitioner units and delivered there had by far the lowest perinatal mortality rate (3.3/1000deliveries).

Over the past 15 years perinatal mortality rates have more than halved while the social and political pressure to measure and interpret them has increased.

However, two other studies found a slightly higher perinatal mortality in the home birth group as compared to the hospital birth group.

The medical establishment has made extraordinary strides in preventing maternal and perinatal mortality in the last 50 years.

In addition obstetricians conduct audits of their services and health authorities attempt to make purchasing decisions using, among other things, data on perinatal mortality.