Materials and Methods Study design and setting This was a single-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial with maternal written consent, conducted in accordance with the standards of the National Maternity Hospital…
Materials and Methods The Hospital Corporation of America is the nation’s largest provider of inpatient health care, including deliveries. The 110 affiliated hospitals with obstetric and newborn services in 21 states…
Materials and Methods This was a planned analysis of a multicenter, prospectively collected case-control study of women enrolled in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human…
Objective The objective of the study was to examine the association between labor and delivery practice model and cesarean delivery rates at a community hospital. Study Desgin This was a…
Materials and Methods Subjects and screening This open-label, multicenter, randomized controlled trial was performed in 11 university hospitals across France. Women were potentially eligible for inclusion if they presented an…
Objective Microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity (MIAC) is common in early preterm labor and is associated with maternal and neonatal infectious morbidity. MIAC is usually occult and is reliably…
Objective We aimed to characterize the effect of vaginal or abdominal mesh insertion and of different collagen augmentation of polypropylene mesh in a sheep model. Outcome measures were passive and…
Objective Localized provoked vulvodynia (LPV) may have inflammatory etiology. We wanted to find out whether the cell-mediated immune system becomes activated in the vestibular mucosa in LPV. Study Design This…
Materials and Methods Reagents and cell lines The K-ras/PTEN cell line were established by us from ovarian tumors that were generated with the use of a genetic mouse model. The…
Objective Health care providers are increasingly being evaluated by the quality of care they provide. Our aim was to assess the feasibility of recently developed quality indicators (QIs) for pelvic organ…
