Early discharge vs standard discharge: Number of women having contact with healthcare professionals regarding maternal health issues within 6 weeks of giving birth
Early discharge showed no clear difference in number of women having contact with healthcare professionals… compared with standard discharge (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Early discharge vs standard discharge Number of women having contact with healthcare professionals regarding maternal health issues within 6 weeks of giving birth · healthy mothers and term infants Early discharge showed no clear difference in number of women having contact with healthcare professionals… compared with standard discharge (moderate certainty). Early postnatal discharge from hospital for healthy mothers and term infants (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.72 [0.43, 1.2] | 2 studies · 464 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early postnatal discharge from hospital for healthy mothers and term infants 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.