From the Publisher
Professor G. Justus Hofmeyr
Director/Hon Professor, Effective Care Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape Department of Health, Frere and Cecilia Makiwane Hospitals, South Africa.
Prof Zarko Alfirevic
Professor of Fetal and Maternal Medicine Division of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Liverpool, UK.
Caroline A. Crowther
Associate Professor, Dept Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, South Africa.
Lelia Duley
Obstetric Epidemiologist, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK.
Dr A Metin Gülmezoglu
Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization.
Mrs Gillian? ML Gyte
Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group, Division of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Liverpool, UK.
Ellen D. Hodnett
Professor James P. Neilson, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Liverpool, UK.
From the Inside Flap
Pregnancy and Childbirth presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents. The logical sequence of chapters and the index give quick access to the abstracts of over four hundred Cochrane systematic reviews. The book serves both as a stand-alone reference, and as a companion to locating full reviews on the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library is published by John Wiley on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration.
www.thecochranelibrary.com"This is the best, and most concise, evidence-based book on Pregnancy and Childbirth. It summarises effective (and non effective) therapies, and the World Health Organisation has adopted the systematic reviews at the heart of this book for their 'Reproductive Health Library' which is distributed in many languages all over the world. This volume, therefore, has the highest possible level of endorsement, confirming its value to health care professionals and to interested consumers."
SABARATNAM ARULKUMARAN, Professor and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George's University of London
"It would be a great achievement to put these Cochrane Pocketbooks in the hands of health workers the world over."
MARY ROBINSON, President, Realizing Rights, Former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
From the Back Cover
Pregnancy and Childbirth presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents. The logical sequence of chapters and the index give quick access to the abstracts of over four hundred Cochrane systematic reviews. The book serves both as a stand-alone reference, and as a companion to locating full reviews on the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library is published by John Wiley on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration.
www.thecochranelibrary.com"This is the best, and most concise, evidence-based book on Pregnancy and Childbirth. It summarises effective (and non effective) therapies, and the World Health Organisation has adopted the systematic reviews at the heart of this book for their 'Reproductive Health Library' which is distributed in many languages all over the world. This volume, therefore, has the highest possible level of endorsement, confirming its value to health care professionals and to interested consumers."
SABARATNAM ARULKUMARAN, Professor and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George's University of London
"It would be a great achievement to put these Cochrane Pocketbooks in the hands of health workers the world over."
MARY ROBINSON, President, Realizing Rights, Former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
About the Author
Professor G. Justus Hofmeyr
Director/Hon Professor, Effective Care Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape Department of Health, Frere and Cecilia Makiwane Hospitals, South Africa.
Prof Zarko Alfirevic
Professor of Fetal and Maternal Medicine Division of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Liverpool, UK.
Caroline A. Crowther
Associate Professor, Dept Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, South Africa.
Lelia Duley
Obstetric Epidemiologist, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK.
Dr A Metin Gülmezoglu
Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization.
Mrs Gillian? ML Gyte
Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group, Division of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Liverpool, UK.
Ellen D. Hodnett
Professor James P. Neilson, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Liverpool, UK.
