Showing papers by "Béatrice Blondel published in 1993"
TL;DR: Women with poor antenatal care have a greater risk for adverse pregnancy outcome and this risk cannot be attributed to unfavourable living conditions only.
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TL;DR: In countries that offer nearly universal access to prenatal care, women begin care earlier during pregnancy and have fewer visits than women in the United States.
Abstract: OBJECTIVES. We sought to describe prenatal care use in the United States and in three European countries where accessibility to prenatal care has been reported to be better than it is in the United States. METHODS. We analyzed the 1980 US National Natality Survey, the 1981 French National Natality Survey, a 1979 sample of Danish births, and a survey performed from 1979 to 1980 in one Belgian province. RESULTS. The proportion of women who began prenatal care late (after 15 weeks) is highest in the United States (21.2%) and lowest in France (4.0%). This contrasts with the median number of visits, which is greater in the United States (11) than in Denmark (10) or in France (7). Across all maternal ages, parities, and educational levels, late initiation of prenatal care is more frequent in the United States, and median number of visits in the United States is equal to or higher than that in the other countries. CONCLUSIONS. In countries that offer nearly universal access to prenatal care, women begin care ear...
61 citations
TL;DR: The association between infertility treatments and the increasing number of multiple deliveries is pointed out and the number of single deliveries is increased.
46 citations
TL;DR: The results show that after diagnosis of IUGR, supplementary tests are essential to confirm fetal distress and consequently avoid unnecessary interventions after preterm elective cesarean section.
Abstract: We studied the consequences of misdiagnosis of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) for preterm elective cesarean section among live singleton newborns in two teaching hospitals in Paris between 197
9 citations
TL;DR: Sir, The authors have two reasons to be happy to see a paper comparing obstetriccare in England and Wales and in France (Mascarenhas etal., December 1992), but found that many figures and other pieces of information were not correct.