Home Birth Safety Bibliography

• Abemathy, Thomas., Donna M, Lentjes, "Planned and Unplanned Home Births and Hospital Births in Calgary, Alberta, 1984-1987", Public Health Reports. July-August 1989, Vol. 104, No.4, p. 373-377.
• Acheson, Louise A., Stanley E. Harris and Stephen J. Zyzansld, "Patient Selection and Outcomes for Out- of Hospital Births in One Family Practice", The Journal of Family Practice. Vol. 31, No. 2, 1990, p.128- 136.
• Adamson, G. David, and Douglas J. Gare, "Home or Hospital Births?", JAMA. May 2, 1980, Vol. 243, No.17,p.1732-36
• Albers, Leah L., and Vem L. Katz, "Birth Setting for Low-Risk Pregnancies, an Analysis of the Current Literature", Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. Vol. 36, No. 4, July/August 1991, p. 215-220.
• Anderson, Jon, "Bom-Again Idea", Chicago Tribune. November 7, 1991, Section 5, p. 51.
• Anderson, Rondi and Deborah Greener, "A Descriptive Analysis of Home Births Attended by CNMs in Two Nurse-Midwifery Services", Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, Vol. 36, No. 2, March/April 1991 p. 35- 103.
• Boyer, Ernest L., "Midwifery in America: A Profession Reaffirmed", Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. July/August 1990, Vol. 35, No. 4, p. 214-219.
• Bumett, Claude A., James A. Jones, Judith Rooks, Chong Hwa Chen, Carl W. Tyier, and C. Arden Miller, "Home Delivery and Neonatal Mortality in North Carolina", JAMA. December 19, 1980, Vol. 244, No. 24, p. 2741-2745.
• Burst, Helen Vamey, "Women's Health: Pregnancy and Childbirth", Public Health Reports Supplement. July/August, 1987, p. 57-61.
• Cameron, J.C., et al, "Home Birth in Salt Lake County, Utah", American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 69, 1979,pp.716-717.
• Campbell, Rona, and Alison McFarlane, Where To Be Bom'7 The Debate and The Evidence. National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Radchffe Infirmary, Oxford, England, 1987.
• Crotty, Maria, Andrew T. Ramsay, Rosemary Smart, and Annabelle Chan, "Planned Home Births in South Australia 1976-1987", Medical Journal of Australia. December 3/17, 1990, Vol. 153, p. 664-671.
• Damstra-Wijmenga, "Home Confinement: The Positive Results in Holland", Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vol. 34, August 1984, pp. 425-430.
• DeClerq, Eugene, "Out of Hospital Births, US, 1978: Birthweight and Apgar Scores as Measures of Outcome", Public Health Report 1984; Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 63-73.
• deHaan, J. and Smits, F., "Home Deliveries in the Netherlands: Present Situation and Sequelae", Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Vol. 11, 1983, pp 3-8.
• Devitt, Neal, "The Transition from Home to Hospital Birth, U. S.," Birth and Family Journal. Vol. 4, No., 1977, pp 47-58.
• Durand, Mark, "The Safety of Home Birth: The Farm Study," Journal of the American Public Health Association. Vol. 82, March 1992, pp. 450-452.
• Freeman, Roger, "Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring - a Disappointing Story", The New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 322, No. 9, March 1, 1990, pp. 624-626.
• Ford, Christine, Iliffe & Franklin, "Outcome of Planned Home Births in an Inner City Practice," British Medical Journal. Vol. 303, December 1991, pp. 1517-1519.
• Having an Baby in Europe, Copenhagen, World Health Organization, 1985.
• Health Committee of the House of Commons, Report on Maternity Services. March 1992.
• Hinds, M. Ward, Gershom H. Bergeisen and David T. Alien, "Neonatal Outcomes in Planned Versus Unplanned Out-of-Hospital Births in Kentucky", JAMA. March 15, 1985, Vol. 253, No. 11, pp. 1578-1582.
• Huygen, F.J., "Home Deliveries in Holland," Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Vol. 34, 1984, pp. 244-248.
• Klein, M.E., et al, "A Comparrison of Low-Risk Pregnant Women Booked for Delivery in Two Systems of Care," British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Vol.90, 1983, pp. 118-128.
• Kleiverda, Gunilla, et al, "Place of Delivery in the Netherlands: Maternal Motives and Background Variables Related to Preferences for Home or Hospital Confinement," European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. Vol. 36, 1990, pp. 1-9.
• Kleiverda, Gunilla, et al, "Place of Delivery in the Netherlands: Actual Location of confinement," European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. Vol. 39, 1991, pp. 139-146.
• Kloosterman, G.J., "The Dutch Experience of Domiciliary Confinements," In: Zander, L., Chamberlin, G. (eds). Pregnancy Care for the 1980's. The Royal Society of Medicine.
• Korte, Diana, "Infant Mortality: Lessons from Japan," Mothering. Winter 1992, pp.83-88.
• Lievaart, M. and DeJong, P., Neonatal Morbidity in Deliveries Conducted by Midwives and Gynecologists: A Study of the System of Obstetric Care Prevailing in the Netherlands," Journal of the American Medical Association.
• Mallison, Mary B., "Gate Crashers," American Journal of Nursing. February 1990, p. 7.
• Mehl, Lewis E., Gail H. Peterson, Michael Witt and Warren E. Hawes, "Outcomes of Elective Home Births: A Series of 1,146 Cases," The Journal of Reproductive Medicine. Vol. 19, No. 5, November 1977, pp. 281-290.
• McClain, C. "Woman's Choice of Home or Hospital Birth," Journal of Family Practice. Vol. 12, 1981, pp. 1033-1038.
• McQuarrie, H., "Home Delivery Controversy," Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 243, No. 17, 1980, p. 1747.
• Murphy, J.F., Marjorie Dauncey, O.P. Gray and I. Chalmers, "Planned and Unplanned Deliveries at Home: Implications of a Changing Ratio," British Medical Journal. May 1984, Vol. 288, pp. 1429-1432.
• Phillips, E., "Planned and Unplanned Deliveries at Home," British Medical Journal. Vol. 1, 1984, pp. 1996-1997.
• Rooks, Judith P., "Low Intervention Maternity Care," Journal of Family Practice. Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 125-127.
• Saldana, Luis R., Manuel E. Rivera-Alsina, Juan W. Arias, Patti J. Ross, and Susan F. Pokomy, "Home Birth: Negative Implications Derived from Hospital-Based Birthing Suite", Southern Medical Journal. February, 1983, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 170-173.
• Scherjon, Sicco "A Comparison Between the Organization of Obstetrics in Denmark and the Netherlands", British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Vol. 93, July 1986, pp. 684-689.
• Schramm, Wayne F., Diane E. Bames and Janice M. Bakewell, "Neonatal Mortality in Missouri Homebirths, 1978-84", AJPH. August 1987, Vol. 77, No. 8, pp.930-935.
• Shearer, J.M.L., "Five Year Prospective Risk of Booking for a Home Birth in Essex", British Medical Journal. November 23, 1985, Vol. 291, pp. 1478-80.
• Shy, KK. et al, "Out-of-Hospital Delivery in Washington State, 1975 to 1977", American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Vol. 137, 1980, pp. 547-552.
• Soderstrom, Bobbi, Paula J. Stewart, Christabel Kaitell, and Marie Chamberlain, "Interest in Alternative Birthplace Among Women in Ottawa-Carleton", Canadian Medical Association Journal. May 1, 1990, Vol. 142, No, 9, pp. 963-969.
• Sullivan, Deborah A and Ruth Beeman, "Four Years Experience with Home Birth by Licensed Midwives in Arizona", AJPH, June 1983, Vol. 73, No. 6, pp. 641- 645.
• Tew, Marjorie, "The Case Against Hospital Deliveries: The Statistical Evidence," Kitzinger, S., Davies, J.A. (eds). The Place of Birth Oxford University Press, 1978: pp. 55-65.
• Tew, Marjorie, "Do Obstetric Intranatal Interventions Make Births Safer?", British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. July 1986, Vol. 93, pp. 659-674.
• Tew, Marjorie, "Place of Birth and Perinatal Mortality," Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Vol. 35, August 1985, pp. 390-394.
• Treffers, P. and Laan. R., "Perinatal Mortality and Hospitalization at Delivery in the Netherlands", British Journal of Obstetrics and Gvnecology. Vol. 93. 1986, pp. 690-693
• Treffers, Pieter E.. Martine Eskes, Gunilla Kleiverda and Dik Van Alten. "Letter from Amsterdam: Home Births and Minimal Medical Inten/entions", JAMA. November 7, 1990, Vol. 264, No. 17, pp. 2203-2208.
• Treffers, P. et al, "Condemnation of the Obstetric Care in the Netherlands?" American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecoiogy, Vol. 146, 1983, pp. 871-872.
• Van Alten, D., M. Eskes and P.E. Treffers, "Midwifery in the Netherlands. The Wormerveer Study, Seiection Mode of Delivery Perinatal Mortality and Infant Morbidity", British Journal of-Obstetrics and Gynecoiogy. June 1989, Vol. 96, pp. 656-62.
• Woodcock, Hazel C., Anne W Read. Diane J. Moore, Fiona J. Stanley and Carol Bower, "Planned Homebirths in Western Australia 1981-1987: A Descriptive Study"', The Medical Journal of Australia. December 3/17, 1990. Vol. 153. pp. 672-678.
• Wynn, Margaret. "Birthplace Survey", New Generation. Vol. 4, 1985, pp. 1-9.
• Zander, L.I., "The Place of Confinement - A Question of Statistics or Ethics", Journal of Medical Exhics. Vol. 7, 1981, pp. 125-127.