Journal article

Early postnatal discharge from hospital for healthy mothers and term infants

Eleanor Jones, Fiona Stewart, Beck Taylor, Peter G Davis, Stephanie J Brown

COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS | WILEY | Published : 2021

Abstract

Background: Length of postnatal hospital stay has declined dramatically in the past 50 years. There is ongoing controversy about whether staying less time in hospital is harmful or beneficial. This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in 2002, and previously updated in 2009. Objectives: To assess the effects of a policy of early postnatal discharge from hospital for healthy mothers and term infants in terms of important maternal, infant and paternal health and related outcomes. Search methods: We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register, ClinicalTrials.gov, the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) (21 May 2021) and the referen..

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