Systematic Reviews on Pregnancy

Summaries of systematic reviews about aspects of normal pregnancy management and interventions which minimise pregnancy complications.

Updated December 2011


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Title:   Vitamin D supplementation for women during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin D is produced by the human body from exposure to sunlight and can also be consumed from foods such as fish-liver oils, fatty fish, mushrooms, egg yolks, and liver. Vitamin D has many functions in the body; it helps maintain bone integrity and ca...
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Home visits during pregnancy and after birth for women with an alcohol or drug problem
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough information on home visiting in pregnancy and after the birth for women with an alcohol or drug problem. Women with an alcohol or drug problem in pregnancy are at increased risk of miscarriage, low birthweight babies, infections and postnatal...
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Transplacental versus direct fetal corticosteroid treatment for accelerating fetal lung maturation where there is a risk of preterm birth
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Babies born early, before 37 weeks, are at risk of dying, having bleeding into their brain and problems with their breathing because their lungs are not fully developed. Corticosteroid treatment given to the mother before early birth has been shown to b...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a pregnancy at high risk of preterm birth (excluding multiple pregnancy) to improve outcomes for women and babies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women who have had a previous preterm birth are at increased risk of having another premature birth. Babies who are born before the 37th week of pregnancy, and particularly those born before the 34th week, are at greater risk of suffering problems at bi...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Mind-body interventions during pregnancy for preventing or treating women's anxiety
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Mind-body interventions like yoga or hypnotherapy may be effective for reducing anxiety. These can be learned to induce mental relaxation and alter negative thinking related to anxiety to change the perception of a stressful event, leading to better ad...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Giving women their own case notes to carry during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women carrying their own case notes improves their sense of control and satisfaction and the availability of antenatal records, but insufficient evidence of additional effects. In some healthcare systems women are given their own case notes to look afte...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Vitamin K prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin K given to women before a very preterm birth does not decrease the risk of bleeding in the brain and associated neurological injury in babies born very preterm. Babies born very early (before 34 weeks) are at risk of bleeding in the brain (periv...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Hepatitis B vaccination during pregnancy for preventing infant infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hepatitis B is an infection caused by the hepatitis B virus and occurs worldwide. For infants and children, the two main sources of the infection are transmission from an infected mother or living in an infected household. Perinatal transmission is comm...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Antiretrovirals for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   At the end of 2009, 2.5 million children under the age of 15 years were estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS (WHO 2011). The majority of these children acquired their infections as a result of mother-to-child transmission during pregnancy, labor, or bre...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Critical incident audit and feedback to improve perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Recording the number and the causes of deaths of pregnant women and babies is essential health information to identify problem areas. Effective management of the health of a population is dependent on basic statistics that allow for the identification o...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Different communication strategies for disclosing results of diagnostic prenatal testing
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Some parents want reassurance that their baby is all right genetically. Two studies (involving 286 women) compared the anxiety levels in women who, after amniocentesis, were given the results of rapid testing within few days with those who waited on ave...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV is the primary way that children become infected with HIV. More than 1000 children worldwide are infected in this way every day. Researchers theorized that giving vitamin A supplements to HIV-infected pregnant ...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Interventions for treating pregnant women or new mothers with heart failure of unknown cause (peripartum cardiomyopathy)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Very rarely, some women suffer from heart failure (without any known cause) in late pregnancy or as a new mother. The heart muscle becomes large and weakened, and is unable to pump blood properly round the body. This affects the lungs, liver, and other ...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Doppler ultrasound of blood vessels in the placenta and uterus of pregnant women as a way of improving outcome for babies and their mothers
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   One of the main aims of routine antenatal care is to identify mothers or babies at risk of adverse outcomes. Doppler ultrasound uses sound waves to detect the movement of blood in blood vessels. It is used in pregnancy to study blood circulation in the ...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Community-based intervention packages for preventing maternal and newborn illness and death and improving neonatal outcomes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   While women, newborn and under-five child death rates in developing countries have declined significantly in the past two to three decades, newborn mortalities have hardly changed. It is now been recognised that almost half of newborn deaths can be prev...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Doppler ultrasound of fetal blood vessels in normal pregnancies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   One of the main aims of routine antenatal care is to identify babies who are not thriving in the womb. It is possible that medical interventions might improve outcomes for these babies, if they can be identified. Doppler ultrasound uses sound waves to...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Treatments for symptomatic urinary tract infections during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antibiotics are very effective at clearing urinary tract infections in pregnancy, and complications are very rare. Infections in the urinary tract are common in pregnancy. These include infections with no symptoms (asymptomatic bacteriuria), cystitis (b...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Conservative management of symptomatic and/or complicated haemorrhoids in pregnancy and the puerperium
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough evidence on non-surgical interventions for treating problematic piles (haemorrhoids) during pregnancy and in the early weeks after birth (puerperium). Piles (haemorrhoids) are swollen veins in the back passage (anus). They normally help empty...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Anticoagulation therapy for serious blood clots during pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pregnant women are more susceptible than non-pregnant women to forming blood clots in their veins (venous thrombosis). When these clots occur in the deep leg veins, the clot can break up and fragments (emboli) move to the lungs where they may block the ...
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Routine compared with selective ultrasound in early pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ultrasound is an electronic technology, which uses the reflection of pulses of high frequency sound to produce an image. Ultrasound may be used in a variety of circumstances during pregnancy. It has been assumed that the routine use of ultrasound in ear...
Date:   Mar 2010

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