Utah Department of Health and Human Services
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Key Findings: • The neonatal mortality rate in planned OOH births is 3 times higher than the rate in planned hospital births. These estimates will be explored in future reports and used by the OOH Birth Committee to guide quality improvement efforts in and out of hospital.
• About 10% of planned OOH births were transferred to a hospital during labor. A majority of these transferred patients had no prior births.
• More individuals with pre-existing medical conditions had planned hospital births. This likely contributed to the higher observed prevalence of NICU admission, maternal uterine infection, and cesarean section,1 along with other possible contributing factors.