Study Design
This is a multicentre prospective observational study conducted at two
free-standing tertiary level university maternity Hospitals in Dublin,
Ireland. The Rotunda Hospital and The National Maternity Hospital
provide both routine obstetric care and complex tertiary referral care
for the city of Dublin and their national referral catchment areas. Each
hospital delivers over 8,000 babies per annum and are amongst the
largest maternity hospitals in Europe.