NCT00857129

Can Differentiated Birth Care Improve the Service?

Differentiated Birth Service- an Improvement?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,111 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ostfold Hospital Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Prospective evaluation of birth complication in three differently staffed and equipped units in the same hospital.

Detailed description

The study will include approximately 1000 normal births in a county hospital. The mothers are randomly assigned to one of three different maternal wards; one run by midwives, one normally equipped according to national standards for a county hospital and one prepared for complicated births. Endpoints are number of operative births and complications.

Conditions

• Low Risk Birth; Births With Low Risk Factor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Normal Unit	low-risk patients randomised to Normal Unit
PROCEDURE	Special birth unit	Low-risk women are randomised to the Special birth unit. Organised to take care of women with extended need for surveillance before, under and after birth.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-09-01
• Primary completion: 2010-03-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2009-03-06
• Last updated: 2014-10-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway