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In the Netherlands, pregnant women without medical complications can decide where they want to give birth, at home or in a short-stay hospital setting with a midwife. However, a decrease in the home birth rate during the last decennium may have raised the societal costs of giving birth. The objective of this study is to compare the societal costs of home births with those of births in a short-stay hospital setting.
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Department of Obstetrics, GROW - School for Oncology and Development Biology, Maastricht UMC, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands. marijke@ploemen.nl
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