Bibliographic record
Abstract
Homebirth in the Netherlands and its relevance to Australian practice: a review of the available evidence. Less than one per cent of all births in Australia are planned homebirths, yet the topic continues to provoke heated discussion between advocates for increased support and funding of homebirth services, and opponents of such measures. Much of the discussion is informed by reference to homebirth services in other developed countries, including Canada, the UK, New Zealand, the USA and, particularly, the Netherlands, in the latter case usually with an implication that the Dutch system could serve as a model for Australia. Of developed countries, the Netherlands has the highest rate of planned homebirths supervised by midwives, with the availability of transfer to obstetric care if needed: currently 30 per cent of all births, a figure down from 35 per cent in 1979 and 74 per cent in 1958. In this article we review all reports and studies of homebirth in Australia published in the period 1990–2011, together with relevant peer-reviewed literature regarding homebirth from the same timeframe from the Netherlands, with the aim of assessing overseas experience that might be relevant to Australian practice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.015 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".