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Recognising disability to improve care
Researchers from La Trobe University and the Royal Women’s Hospital are calling for disabilities to be routinely recorded on patient maternity records to enable disability-aware care for women who need it throughout their pregnancy and birth.
La Trobe University, in partnership with the Women’s, has conducted the first study in Australia to examine pregnancy and birth outcomes of women with various types of disabilities including physical, cognitive, sensory and intellectual – with the findings published in leading obstetric journal the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The research adds to the global evidence base acknowledging that women with disability have higher rates of poor perinatal outcomes – including preterm births, low birthweight babies and admittances to Special Care and Neonatal intensive Care Units – when compared with general maternity data.