Bed rest with and without hospitalisation in multiple pregnancy for improving perinatal outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: The evidence to date is insufficient to inform a policy of routine bed rest in hospital or at home for women with a multiple pregnancy. There is a need for large-scale, multicenter randomised controlled trials to evaluate the benefits, adverse effects and costs of bed rest before definitive conclusions can be drawn. PMID: 28262917 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28262917?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - March 5, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: da Silva Lopes K, Takemoto Y, Ota E, Tanigaki S, Mori R Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research