Randomised controlled trial of routine cervical examinations in pregnancy

Autor:	Monique Kaminski, Sophie Alexander, Michel Boutsen, Margaret Reid, Béatrice Blondel, Pierre Buekens
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Pregnancy business.industry Obstetrics Neonatal mortality Obstetrics and Gynecology General Medicine medicine.disease Confidence interval law.invention Randomized controlled trial Prenatal visit law Relative risk Medicine Abstract Summary business Premature rupture of membranes Preterm delivery
Zdroj:	The Lancet. 344:841-844
ISSN:	0140-6736
DOI:	10.1016/s0140-6736(94)92825-8
Popis:	Preterm delivery is strongly associated with neonatal mortality and morbidity. In some European countries, cervical examinations are used routinely during pregnancy to identify women at risk of preterm delivery. We sought to evaluate the efficacy and secondary effects of these routine cervical examinations. We did a randomised controlled trial in seven European countries, comparing two policies—namely, an attempt to do a cervical examination at every prenatal visit (2803 women) and avoidance of cervical examination if possible (2799). The median number of cervical examinations was 6 in the experimental group and 1 in the controls. There were 6·7% preterm (
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