Bed rest in singleton pregnancies for preventing preterm birth

Recommendations of activity restriction in high-risk pregnancy scenarios: a Danish national survey

“…The differences in AR recommendations for preventing preterm birth in cases of PPROM, in twin pregnancies, in bleeding episodes caused by placenta praevia, and in cases of IUGR are consistent with the results of several Cochrane Reviews [1,2,6,19,26,29] . These reviews could neither support nor refute routinely recommended bed rest and/or hospitalisation to prevent preterm birth because of the lack of sufficient evidence from the few included trials.…”

Recommendations of activity restriction in high-risk pregnancy scenarios: a Danish national survey

“…The differences in AR recommendations for preventing preterm birth in cases of PPROM, in twin pregnancies, in bleeding episodes caused by placenta praevia, and in cases of IUGR are consistent with the results of several Cochrane Reviews [1,2,6,19,26,29] . These reviews could neither support nor refute routinely recommended bed rest and/or hospitalisation to prevent preterm birth because of the lack of sufficient evidence from the few included trials.…”

Factors associated with tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan: evidence from a population-based and longitudinal study from 1997 to 2004

“…Therefore, tertiary-level hospitals are likely to provide more tocolytic hospitalizations. On the other hand, such physician and institutional variations are noteworthy in light of evidence that for women with preterm labor, tocolysis may be unnecessary, often ineffective, and occasionally harmful [9,13,14,36,37]. Is it possible that ineffective and poor outcomes of inpatient tocolytic treatments are associated with the physician and institutional variations observed in this study?…”

Antenatal interventions to reduce preterm birth: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews

“…13 reviews addressed mechanical [7] or pharmaceutical prevention of PTB or miscarriage [8-12], the impact of other interventions targeted at influencing PTB or miscarriage [13-15], or analysed screening/risk assessment interventions to predict PTB risk and improve pregnancy outcomes [16-19]; two reviews analysed the effect of ultrasound screening on pregnancy outcomes [20,21] (Additional file 3: Table S1b). Seven reviews either addressed the prevention [22,23], the detection [24] or the treatment of infection [25-28] (Additional file 3: Table S1c).…”

Recommendations of activity restriction in high-risk pregnancy scenarios: a Danish national survey

“…The differences in AR recommendations for preventing preterm birth in cases of PPROM, in twin pregnancies, in bleeding episodes caused by placenta praevia, and in cases of IUGR are consistent with the results of several Cochrane Reviews [1,2,6,19,26,29] . These reviews could neither support nor refute routinely recommended bed rest and/or hospitalisation to prevent preterm birth because of the lack of sufficient evidence from the few included trials.…”

Factors associated with tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan: evidence from a population-based and longitudinal study from 1997 to 2004

“…Therefore, tertiary-level hospitals are likely to provide more tocolytic hospitalizations. On the other hand, such physician and institutional variations are noteworthy in light of evidence that for women with preterm labor, tocolysis may be unnecessary, often ineffective, and occasionally harmful [9,13,14,36,37]. Is it possible that ineffective and poor outcomes of inpatient tocolytic treatments are associated with the physician and institutional variations observed in this study?…”

Antenatal interventions to reduce preterm birth: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews

“…13 reviews addressed mechanical [7] or pharmaceutical prevention of PTB or miscarriage [8-12], the impact of other interventions targeted at influencing PTB or miscarriage [13-15], or analysed screening/risk assessment interventions to predict PTB risk and improve pregnancy outcomes [16-19]; two reviews analysed the effect of ultrasound screening on pregnancy outcomes [20,21] (Additional file 3: Table S1b). Seven reviews either addressed the prevention [22,23], the detection [24] or the treatment of infection [25-28] (Additional file 3: Table S1c).…”

Recommendations of activity restriction in high-risk pregnancy scenarios: a Danish national survey

“…The differences in AR recommendations for preventing preterm birth in cases of PPROM, in twin pregnancies, in bleeding episodes caused by placenta praevia, and in cases of IUGR are consistent with the results of several Cochrane Reviews [1,2,6,19,26,29] . These reviews could neither support nor refute routinely recommended bed rest and/or hospitalisation to prevent preterm birth because of the lack of sufficient evidence from the few included trials.…”

Factors associated with tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan: evidence from a population-based and longitudinal study from 1997 to 2004

“…Therefore, tertiary-level hospitals are likely to provide more tocolytic hospitalizations. On the other hand, such physician and institutional variations are noteworthy in light of evidence that for women with preterm labor, tocolysis may be unnecessary, often ineffective, and occasionally harmful [9,13,14,36,37]. Is it possible that ineffective and poor outcomes of inpatient tocolytic treatments are associated with the physician and institutional variations observed in this study?…”

Antenatal interventions to reduce preterm birth: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews

“…13 reviews addressed mechanical [7] or pharmaceutical prevention of PTB or miscarriage [8-12], the impact of other interventions targeted at influencing PTB or miscarriage [13-15], or analysed screening/risk assessment interventions to predict PTB risk and improve pregnancy outcomes [16-19]; two reviews analysed the effect of ultrasound screening on pregnancy outcomes [20,21] (Additional file 3: Table S1b). Seven reviews either addressed the prevention [22,23], the detection [24] or the treatment of infection [25-28] (Additional file 3: Table S1c).…”