BACKGROUND: Health workers' (HWs') perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) are not routinely collected. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to document HWs' perspectives on QMNC around childbirth in 12 World Health Organization (WHO) European countries. METHODS: HWs involved in maternal/neonatal care for at least one yea...
INTRODUCTION: This study investigates the association between maternal exposure to particulate matter (PM10) and nitric dioxide (NO2) during the first, second and third trimester and placental weight and birth weight/placental weight (BW/PW) ratio in twins at birth. METHODS: Cross-sectional data of 3340 twins from the East Flanders Prospective Twin...
AIM: To document the outcomes of second-trimester induction of labor with laminaria cervical dilation followed by gemeprost vaginal tablets, with a particular emphasis on its complications. METHODS: This was a single-center retrospective cohort study of women who experienced medical abortions between 12 and 21 weeks of gestation from January 2016 t...
International guidelines on the treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG) have been published but are not tailored to the Belgian situation. This publication presents recommendations from a group of Belgian MG experts for the practical management of MG in Belgium. It includes recommendations for treatment of adult patients with generalized myasthenia gra...
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Cervical cerclage is an operation performed in pregnancy to prevent miscarriage and preterm birth. A cervical cerclage is sometimes recommended in women who have had babies born prematurely before or who have had previous cervical surgery. A cerclage operation involves a stitch being inserted around the neck of the womb (cervix) to keep it closed d...
La pandémie de Covid-19 a engendré, dans la précipitation, une réorganisation des soins dans les maternités qui a fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques dans les médias. La recherche Mater-Covid-19 visait à recueillir les expériences des femmes ayant accouché dans ce contexte pandémique en France. De ces récits se dégagent les représentations sociale...
In 1993, France introduced a distinction between a baby born alive who subsequently dies, and a stillborn infant (enfant sans vie, literally ‘lifeless child’). Since then, the definition of a stillbirth, based on the concept of viability, has increasingly expanded, and legal recognition of these infants has become easier. Since 2008, a medical cert...
© The Author(s) 2024.Evidence linking maternal diet during pregnancy to allergic or respiratory diseases in children remains sparse, and outcomes were mainly studied separately. We aim to investigate these associations by considering clusters of allergic and respiratory multimorbidity among 9679 motheru2013child pairs from the Elfe birth cohort. Ma...
OBJECTIVES: Orofacial clefts are among the most common birth defects, with an estimated worldwide incidence of around 1.5-1.7 per 1000 live-born babies. The most frequent form of orofacial clefts is cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL ± CP). The role of environmental factors in the development of clefts is unclear in most patients, thus the ...
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