Table 3 [see also table 1 and
table 2]
Tableau 3 [voir
aussi le tableau 1 et le tableau
2]
Characteristics of women |
Mean perinatal outcome index (SD)
|
Difference (95% confidence interval)
|
Primiparous women |
||
Background relatively favourable |
||
Home birth planned |
31.56 (3.17) |
0.60 (-0.10 to 1.30) |
Hospital birth planned |
30.96 (3.50) |
|
Background relatively unfavourable |
||
Home birth planned |
30.63 (3.57) |
0.24 (-0.55 to 1.03) |
Hospital birth planned |
30.39 (3.75) |
|
Multiparous women |
||
Background relatively favourable |
||
Home birth planned |
34.17 (1.85) |
0.90 (0.52 to 1.28) |
Hospital birth planned |
33.27 (2.24) |
|
Background relatively unfavourable |
||
Home birth planned |
33.69 (2.45) |
0.73 (0.17 to 1.29) |
Hospital birth planned |
32.96 (2.38) |
Source:
Outcome of planned home and planned hospital births in low
risk pregnancies: prospective study in midwifery practices in the Netherlands
Résultats comparés de naissances planifiées
à domicile et à l'hôpital pour des grossesses à
risque faible: étude prospective des pratiques des sages-femmes aux
Pays-Bas. [Voir extraits]
(T A
Wiegers, M J N C Keirse, J van der Zee, & G A H Berghs)
British Medical
Journal, 1996; 313: 1309-1313.
<http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7068/1309>