Perinatal outcomes of reduced fetal movements: A cohort study

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dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Claire M.
dc.contributor.authorMeaney, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorO'Donoghue, Keelin
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-21T11:01:24Z
dc.date.available2017-06-21T11:01:24Z
dc.date.issued2016-07-19
dc.description.abstractBackground: The perception of reduced fetal movement (RFM) is an important marker of fetal wellbeing and is associated with poor perinatal outcome (such as intra-uterine death). Methods: We conducted a prospective study of women presenting with RFM over 28 weeks’ gestation to a tertiary-level maternity hospital. We examined pregnancy outcomes and compared them to a retrospectively collected control group delivering contemporaneously. Results: In total, 275 presentations were analysed in the RFM group, with 264 in the control group. Women with RFM were more likely to be nulliparous (p?=?0.002) and have an induction of labour (p?=?0.0011). 26.5 % (n?=?73) of cases were admitted following presentation with RFM, and 79.4 % (n?=?58) delivered on primary presentation. Overall, 15.2 % (n?=?42) women were induced for RFM specifically. Conclusion: This prospective study shows the increased burden of care required by those with RFM, including increased neonatal unit admission rates, increased induction rates and higher surveillance demands, demonstrating the need for increased attention to this area of practice.en
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dc.identifier.articleid169
dc.identifier.citationMcCarthy, C. M., Meaney, S. and O’Donoghue, K. (2016) 'Perinatal outcomes of reduced fetal movements: a cohort study', BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16, 169 (6pp). doi: 10.1186/s12884-016-0964-2en
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12884-016-0964-2
dc.identifier.endpage6
dc.identifier.issn1471-2393
dc.identifier.journaltitleBMC Pregnancy and Childbirthen
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4123
dc.identifier.volume16
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen
dc.relation.urihttps://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-016-0964-2
dc.rights© 2016, the Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectFetal movementen
dc.subjectPerinatal outcomeen
dc.subjectStillbirthen
dc.subjectKick countingen
dc.titlePerinatal outcomes of reduced fetal movements: A cohort studyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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