Home birth study ‘quite misleading’

A CONTROVERSIAL home birth safety study conducted by two top Irish physicians has been torn to shreds in an article published in a British scientific midwifery journal.

A critical review of the study that appeared in the latest issue of MIDRS Midwifery Digest described it as “deeply skewed and quite misleading”.

The study by Peter McKenna, former master of the Rotunda Hospital, and Prof Tom Matthews, a paediatric consultant based in the maternity hospital, compared home and hospital deliveries in the Eastern region.