Survey of Mode of Delivery and Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in Canada.

Objective: To identify determinants of cesarean delivery (CD) and examine associations between mode of delivery (MOD) and maternal and perinatal outcomes.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of a Canadian multicentre birth cohort derived from provincial data collected in 2008/2009. Maternal and perinatal characteristics and outcomes were compared between vaginal and cesarean birth and between the following MOD subgroups: spontaneous vaginal delivery (VD), assisted VD, planned cesarean delivery (CD), and intrapartum CD.

Education Outcomes of Children Born Late Preterm: A Retrospective Whole-Population Cohort Study.

Background: Early life exposures can have an impact on a child's developmental trajectory and children born late preterm (34-36 weeks gestational age) are increasingly recognized to have health and developmental setbacks that extend into childhood.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess whether late preterm birth was associated with poorer developmental and educational outcomes in the early childhood period, after controlling for health and social factors.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using administrative databases housed at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, including all children born late preterm (34-36 weeks gestational age (GA)) and at full-term (39-41 weeks GA) between 2000 and 2005 in urban Manitoba (N = 28,100).

The effects of early pregnancy loss on health outcomes and health care utilization and costs.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of early pregnancy loss on subsequent health care use and costs.

Data Sources: Linked administrative health databases from Manitoba, Canada.

Study Design: This was a population-based cohort study.

Prevalence and clinical, social, and health care predictors of miscarriage.

Background: Pregnancy loss is common and several factors (e.g. chromosomal anomalies, parental age) are known to increase the risk of occurrence.

Factors obstetricians, family physicians and midwives consider when counselling women about a trial of labour after caesarean and planned repeat caesarean: a qualitative descriptive study.

Background: Repeat caesarean sections (CSs) are major contributors to the high rate of CS in Canada and globally. Women's decisions to have a planned repeat CS (PRCS) or a trial of labour after CS (TOLAC) are influenced by their maternity care providers. This study explored factors maternity care providers consider when counselling pregnant women with a previous CS, eligible for a TOLAC, about delivery method.