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SUBMITTER: van Zijl MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5584011 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Zijl Maud D MD Koullali Bouchra B Naaktgeboren Christiana A CA Schuit Ewoud E Bekedam Dick J DJ Moll Etelka E Oudijk Martijn A MA van Baal Wilhelmina M WM de Boer Marjon A MA Visser Henricus H van Drongelen Joris J van de Made Flip W FW Vollebregt Karlijn C KC Muller Moira A MA Bekker Mireille N MN Brons Jozien T J JTJ Sueters Marieke M Langenveld Josje J Franssen Maureen T MT Schuitemaker Nico W NW van Beek Erik E Scheepers Hubertina C J HCJ de Boer Karin K Tepe Eveline M EM Huisjes Anjoke J M AJM Hooker Angelo B AB Verheijen Evelyn C J ECJ Papatsonis Dimitri N DN Mol Ben Willem J BWJ Kazemier Brenda M BM Pajkrt Eva E
BMC pregnancy and childbirth 20170904 1
<h4>Background</h4>Preterm birth is in quantity and in severity the most important topic in obstetric care in the developed world. Progestogens and cervical pessaries have been studied as potential preventive treatments with conflicting results. So far, no study has compared both treatments.<h4>Methods/design</h4>The Quadruple P study aims to compare the efficacy of vaginal progesterone and cervical pessary in the prevention of adverse perinatal outcome associated with preterm birth in asymptoma ...[more]