Planned Caesarean Section versus Planned Vaginal Birth for Breech Presentation at Term: A Randomised Multicentre Trial
The Lancet, 2000 · paper · Clinical trials
A randomized multicentre trial of planned caesarean section versus planned vaginal birth for babies in breech position at term. The text provided is too limited to state the findings.
Checked: PDF from europepmc.org, fetched 6 Oct 2026. Page numbers are those of that PDF.
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Reference or label Reference 2 (Collea et al) is printed as "Am J Obstet Gynec 1990;137:235-44". Reference 3 in the same list cites volume 146 of the same journal as 1983, so a 1990 date for volume 137 is internally inconsistent (probably 1980).
- p. 2 Reference list, ref 2
Am J Obstet Gynec 1990;137:235-44.
- p. 2 Reference list, ref 3
Am J Obstet Gynec 1983;146:34-40.
- p. 2 Reference list, ref 2
1990;137:235-44.
- p. 2 Reference 2
Am J Obstet Gynec 1990;137:235-44
Only the authors can say what is right here.
Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: the Collea trial appeared in 1980, in Am J Obstet Gynecol 137:235-44. Inside the files, the page 2 image shows ref 2 as 1990;137:235-44 and ref 3 as 1983;146:34-40, both in the same journal. A lower volume number cannot carry a later year, so the year is wrong on internal evidence alone. The text also calls this one of the only two earlier trials, which points to an early date. The exact corrected year depends on outside knowledge.
Second check: another model agreed
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Reference or label The claim "external cephalic version for breech at term will reduce non-cephalic births by nearly 60%.6" cites ref 6, "External cephalic version facilitation for breech presentation at term. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2000;2:CD000184". That is the review of ECV facilitation, not of ECV against no ECV.
- p. 2 Text, ECV paragraph
version for breech at term will reduce non-cephalic births by nearly 60%.
- p. 2 Reference list, ref 6
External cephalic version facilitation for breech presentation at term. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2000;2:CD000184.
- p. 2 Discussion, final paragraph
births by nearly 60%.6
Only the authors can say what is right here.
Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: the estimate of ECV against no ECV (about a 60% reduction) comes from a separate Cochrane review, 'External cephalic version for breech presentation at term' (CD000083). CD000184 covers ways of facilitating ECV. The page 2 image confirms that the title of ref 6 includes 'facilitation', while the sentence makes a claim about the effect of ECV itself. The cited source may not support the claim; only the authors can confirm which review they meant.
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Typo Reference 10 of the preceding sexual-health editorial (page 1) gives the first author as "Djurectic T"; the surname is probably Djuretic.
- p. 1 Reference 10 (sexual health editorial)
Djurectic T
Only the authors can say what is right here.
Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: the first author's surname is spelled Djuretic (Tatjana Djuretic). The page 1 image shows "10 Djurectic T, Catchpole M, Nicoll A, ...". This reference belongs to the Kinghorn editorial that ends on in-scope PDF page 1. The spelling cannot be checked against anything in the files, so this goes to the authors as a query.
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