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Hitzert, M. (author), Hermus, M.M. (author), Boesveld, I.I. (author), Franx, A. (author), van der Pal-de Bruin, K.K. (author), Steegers, E.E. (author), van den Akker-van Marle, E.M. (author)Objectives To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a planned birth in a birth centre compared with alternative planned places of birth for low-risk women. In addition, a distinction has been made between different types of locations and integration profiles of birth centres. Design Economic evaluation based on a prospective cohort study. Setting...article 2017
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Hitzert, M. (author), Hermus, M.A. (author), Scheerhagen, M. (author), Boesveld, L.C. (author), Wiegers, T.A. (author), Akker-van Marle, M.E. (author), van Dommelen, P. (author), de Pal-de Bruin, K.M. (author), de Graaf, J.P. (author)Objective to assess the experiences with maternity care of women who planned birth in a birth centre and to compare them to alternative planned places of birth, by using the responsiveness concept of the World Health Organization. Design this study is a cross-sectional study using the ReproQ questionnaire filled out eight to ten weeks after...article 2016
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Macfarlane, A.J. (author), Blondel, B. (author), Mohangoo, A.D. (author), Cuttini, M. (author), Nijhuis, J. (author), Noval, Z. (author), Ólafsdóttir, H.S. (author), Zetilin, J. (author)Objective To use data from routine sources to compare rates of obstetric intervention in Europe both overall and for subgroups at higher risk of intervention. Design Retrospective analysis of aggregated routine data. Setting Thirty-one European countries or regions contributing data on mode of delivery to the Euro-Peristat project. Population...article 2016
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Pedersen, M. (author), Gehring, U. (author), Beelen, R. (author), Wang, M. (author), Giorgis-Allemand, L. (author), Andersen, A.M.N. (author), Basagaña, X. (author), Bernard, C. (author), Cirach, M. (author), Forastiere, F. (author), de Hoogh, K. (author), Gražuleviĉvienė, R. (author), Gruzieva, O. (author), Hoek, G. (author), Jedynska, A. (author), Klümper, C. (author), Kooter, I.M. (author), Krämer, U. (author), Kukkonen, J. (author), Porta, D. (author), Postma, D.S. (author), Raaschou-Nielsen, O. (author), van Rossem, L. (author), Sunyer, J. (author), Sørensen, M. (author), Tsai, M.Y. (author), Vrijkotte, T.G.M. (author), Wilhelm, M. (author), Nieuwenhuijsen, M.J. (author), Pershagen, G. (author), Brunekreef, B. (author), Kogevinas, M. (author), Slama, R. (author)Background: The health effects of suspended particulate matter (PM) may depend on its chemical composition. Associations between maternal exposure to chemical constituents of PM and newborn’s size have been little examined. Objective: We aimed to investigate the associations of exposure to elemental constituents of PM with term low birth weight ...article 2016
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- Macfarlane, A.J. (author), Blondel, B. (author), Mohangoo, A.D. (author), Cuttini, M. (author), Nijhuis, J. (author), Noval, Z. (author), Ólafsdóttir, H.S. (author), Zeitlin, J. (author) article 2016
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Heino, A. (author), Gissler, M. (author), Hindori-Mohangoo, A.D. (author), Blondel, B. (author), Klungsøyr, K. (author), Verdenik, I. (author), Mierzejewska, E. (author), Velebil, P. (author), Sól Ólafsdóttir, H. (author), Macfarlane, A. (author), Zeitlin, J. (author)Objective. Infants from multiple pregnancies have higher rates of preterm birth, stillbirth and neonatal death and differences in multiple birth rates (MBR) exist between countries. We aimed to describe differences in MBR in Europe and to investigate the impact of these differences on adverse perinatal outcomes at a population level. Methods. We...article 2016
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van der Pal-de Bruin, K.M. (author), van der Pal, S.M. (author), Verloove-Vanhoricka, S.P. (author), Walther, F.J. (author)In 1983, data of a unique nationwide cohort of 1338 very preterm (< 32 weeks of gestation) or VLBW (birth weight < 1500 g) infants in the Netherlands was collected and followed at several ages until they reached the age of 19 years. At 19 years of age a more extensive follow-up study was done, including questionnaires, tests on a computer and a...article 2015
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Offerhaus, P.M. (author), de Jonge, A. (author), van der Pal-de Bruin, K.M. (author), Hukkelhoven, C.W.P.M. (author), Scheepers, P.L.H. (author), Lagro-Janssen, A.L.M. (author)Objective: to study whether an increase in intrapartum referrals in primary midwife-led care births in the Netherlands is accompanied by an increase in caesarean sections. Design: nationwide descriptive study. Setting: The Netherlands Perinatal Registry. Participants: 807,437 births of nine year cohorts of women with low risk pregnancies in...article 2015
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Schmidt, S.C. (author), Sleddens, E.F.C. (author), de Vries, S.I. (author), Gubbels, J. (author), Thijs, C. (author)Changes in the neighborhood environment may explain part of the rapid increase in childhood overweight and obesity during the last decades. To date few theory-driven rather than data-driven studies have explored longitudinal associations between multiple neighborhood characteristics and child body weight development. We aimed to assess the...article 2015
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van Gendt, A.W. (author), van der Pal, S.M. (author), Hermes, W. (author), Walther, F.J. (author), van der Pal-de Bruin, K.M. (author), de Groot, C.J.M. (author)The aims of this study were to analyze reproductive outcomes of women and men born very preterm (gestational age <32 weeks) or with a very low birth weight (<1500 g) in 1983 in the Netherlands and to compare their reproductive outcomes with the total population at a similar age of 28 years. Young adults who were born after a pregnancy...article 2015
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van Dommelen, P. (author), Verkerk, P.H. (author), van Straaten, H.L. (author)Objective To gain insight into health and related costs associated with very preterm births, one needs accurate information about the prevalence of the disabling conditions, including neonatal hearing loss (NHL). Study design We assessed the prevalence of NHL by week of gestation and categories of birth weight in very preterm neonates. Results...article 2015
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Gärtner, F.R. (author), de Bekker-Grob, E.W. (author), Stiggelbout, A.M. (author), Rijnders, M.E. (author), Freeman, L.M. (author), Middeldorp, J.M. (author), Bloemenkamp, K.W. (author), de Miranda, E. (author), van den Akker-van Marle, M.E. (author)Objective The aim of this study was to calculate preference weights for the Labor and Delivery Index (LADY-X) to make it suitable as a utility measure for perinatal care studies. Methods In an online discrete choice experiment, 18 pairs of hypothetical scenarios were presented to respondents, from which they had to choose a preferred option. The...article 2015
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Hermus, M.A. (author), Wiegers, T.A. (author), Hitzert, M.F. (author), Boesveld, I.C. (author), van den Akker-van Marle, M.E. (author), Akkermans, H.A. (author), Bruijnzeels, M.A. (author), Franx, A. (author), de Graaf, J.P. (author), Rijnders, M.E. (author), Steegers, E.A. (author), van der Pal-de Bruin, K.M. (author)Background: Birth centres are regarded as settings where women with uncomplicated pregnancies can give birth, assisted by a midwife and a maternity care assistant. In case of (threatening) complications referral to a maternity unit of a hospital is necessary. In the last decade up to 20 different birth centres have been instituted in the...article 2015
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de Wilde, J.A. (author)For South Asian adults lowered BMI cut-offs for overweight and obesity are recommended as these are more in agreement with their body composition (low muscle mass, high fat mass) and the considerably higher risk of cardiovascuar and metabolic disease. For South Asian children living in a Western country lowered BMI norms have not been...doctoral thesis 2015
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Ellens, W. (author), Mandjes, M. (author), van den Berg, J.L. (author), Worm, D.T.H. (author), Błaszczuk, S. (author)This paper deals with the problem of inferring short time-scale fluctuations of a system's behavior from periodic state measurements. In particular, we devise a novel, efficient procedure to compute four interesting performance metrics for a transient birth-death process on an interval of fixed length with given begin and end states: the...article 2015
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- Lanting, C.I. (author), van Wouwe, J.P. (author) article 2015
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Ellens, W. (author), Mandjes, M. (author), Worm, D.T.H. (author), van den Berg, J.L. (author)For effective capacity management in access networks, it is essential to have a good insight in the service quality perceived by the users. As users share the service capacity available, one would want to know how the achieved per-user throughput fluctuates over time. In this paper we present a novel method that assesses the per-user throughput...conference paper 2014
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Offerhaus, P.M. (author), de Jonge, A. (author), van der Pal-de Bruin, K.M. (author), Hukkelhoven, C.W.P.M. (author), Scheepers, P.L.H. (author), Lgero-Jansen, A.L.M. (author)OBJECTIVE: to study whether an increase in intrapartum referrals in primary midwife-led care births in the Netherlands is accompanied by an increase in caesarean sections. DESIGN: nationwide descriptive study. SETTING: the Netherlands Perinatal Registry. PARTICIPANTS: 789,795 births of nine year cohorts of women with low risk pregnancies in...article 2014
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- Verrips, G.H.W. (author), van der Pal, S.M. (author) bookPart 2014
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Fuertes, E. (author), MacIntyre, E. (author), Agius, R. (author), Beelen, R. (author), Brunekreef, B. (author), Bucci, S. (author), Cesaroni, G. (author), Cirach, M. (author), Cyrys, J. (author), Forastiere, F. (author), Gehring, U. (author), Gruzieva, O. (author), Hoffmann, B. (author), Jedynska, A. (author), Keuken, M. (author), Klümper, C. (author), Kooter, I. (author), Korek, M. (author), Krämer, U. (author), Mölter, A. (author), Nieuwenhuijsen, M. (author), Pershagen, G. (author), Porta, D. (author), Postma, D.S. (author), Simpson, A. (author), Smit, H.A. (author), Sugiri, D. (author), Sunyer, J. (author), Wang, M. (author), Heinrich, J. (author)Evidence for a role of long-term particulate matter exposure on acute respiratory infections is growing. However, which components of particulate matter may be causative remains largely unknown. We assessed associations between eight particulate matter elements and early-life pneumonia in seven birth cohort studies (Ntotal=15,980): BAMSE (Sweden...article 2014