ReviewBMJ medicine2023
Stillbirth: prevention and supportive bereavement care.
Review in BMJ medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between long-term and short-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and stillbirth: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Pooled it
- An umbrella review of maternal pre-pregnancy characteristics and prior cesarean section as risk factors for stillbirth.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Adverse birth outcomes and associated factors among African grand multiparous women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- (De)coding perinatal deaths: applying the International Classification of Diseases to perinatal mortality to a perinatal e-registry from 16 hospitals in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.Global health action · 2026Article
- Stillbirths by maternal-obstetric characteristics and Robson classification system: a cross-sectional study from eight district hospitals in Bangladesh.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Exploring the lived experiences and coping strategies of couples after stillbirth in Ho Municipality, Ghana: a phenomenological approach.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Late gestation stillbirth epidemiology: findings from a nationally representative mortality survey of one million population sample in India.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Identifying the Genetic Basis of Fetal Loss in Cows and Heifers Through a Genome-Wide Association Analysis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Multi-level analysis of pregnancy termination among sexually active married women in developing countries.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Stillbirth Discourse on Instagram and X (Formerly Twitter): Content Analysis.JMIR infodemiology · 2025Article
- Women's health and maternal care services: seizing missed opportunities to prevent and manage preterm birth.Reproductive health · 2025Review
- Standardised Methods for Developing Conceptual Frameworks for Placental Disorders of Pregnancy: Pre-Eclampsia and Stillbirth.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Article
- The invisible killer: fetal vascular malperfusion in stillbirths without macroscopic cord abnormalities.Pathologica · 2025Article
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- Prevention of Pregnancy Complications Using a Multimodal Lifestyle, Screening, and Medical Model.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- The Contribution of Multiple Pregnancies in Stillbirths in Greece: A Time-Trend Analysis.Cureus · 2024Article
- Adverse birth outcomes and associated factors among Sub-Saharan African grand multiparas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Therapeutic advances in reproductive healthArticle
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Around half of the two million stillbirths occurring worldwide each year are preventable. This review compiles the most up-to-date evidence to inform stillbirth prevention. Many general maternal health interventions also reduce the risk of stillbirth, for example, antenatal care attendance. This review focuses on specific aspects of care: glucose metabolism, targeted aspirin prophylaxis, clotting and immune disorders, sleep positions, fetal movement monitoring, and preconception and interconception health. In the past few years, covid-19 infection during pregnancy has emerged as a risk factor for stillbirth, particularly among women who were not vaccinated. Alongside prevention, efforts to address stillbirth must include provision of high quality, supportive, and compassionate bereavement care to improve parents' wellbeing. A growing body of evidence suggests beneficial effects for parents who received supportive care and were offered choices such as mode of birth and the option to see and hold their baby. Staff need support to be able to care for parents effectively, yet, studies consistently highlight the scarcity of specific bereavement care training for healthcare providers. Action is urgently needed and is possible. Action must be taken with the evidence available now, in healthcare settings with high or low resources, to reduce stillbirths and improve training and care.
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