Response to wax meta-analysis

Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2010:(96):50.

Abstract

The recent Wax et al. meta-analysis (1) review of previously published homebirth research reflects the willingness of some medical journals to publish faulty conclusions based on misinformation regarding the need for more data on maternal mortality and on data long ago dismissed as unreliable, in an attempt to discredit homebirth.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Home Childbirth / mortality*
  • Home Childbirth / nursing
  • Humans
  • Infant Mortality*
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Maternal Welfare / statistics & numerical data
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Midwifery / organization & administration*
  • Obstetric Labor Complications / mortality*
  • Obstetric Labor Complications / nursing
  • Pregnancy
  • Puerperal Disorders / mortality*
  • Puerperal Disorders / nursing