The term breech presentation. A retrospective study with regard to the planned mode of delivery

Evidence‐based changes in term breech delivery practice in Sweden

“…Thus, the proportion of women planned for vaginal delivery not according to the recommendation of the Cochrane review presented 1 year previously could not be estimated (10). In one study, altruistic arguments are presented in favor of a selective approach to vaginal TBD in the Scandinavian setting (11), while results from observational studies from the same settings (15,20,21) support the Cochrane conclusion. Furthermore, the Swedish Breech Study Group confirms the results from the TBT‐study (16).…”

Breech birth at term: vaginal delivery or elective cesarean section? A systematic review of the literature by a Norwegian review team

“…Information on perinatal mortality in Norway was obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. Unpublished information on morbidity in Norway was assembled from two Norwegian university hospitals (to be published separately) in addition to two published studies (12,13). Information about the Term Breech Trial was given on request from the TBT secretariat.…”

“…The designs and endpoints of registry studies (national cohorts, 6-9), regional cohorts (see ref. 5 for references), casecontrolled studies (10)(11)(12)(13), and patient series (see ref. 5 for references) are too diverse to allow any conclusions to be drawn as to which mode of delivery is preferable in terms of the short-and the long-term consequences for the child and the mother.…”

Comments to letter by Patrick Belfrage and Leif Gjessing on the article ‘Breech birth at term: Vaginal delivery or elective caesarean section? A systematic review of the literature by a Norwegian review team’

“…The study by Belfrage and Gjessing from Stavanger (4), Norway, was published after the review team had made their updated literature search on 13 August 2001. If Belfrage, Gjessing, and also Bergsjø believe that the Stavanger study was ‘…dismissed on the ground that our department had a conservative practice which made our results irrelevant.’, this is certainly not the case.…”