ACOG Endorses Optimal Care—Sort Of
Abstract: Obstetrician-gynecologists . . . can help women meet their goals for labor and birth by using techniques that are associated with minimal interventions and high rates of patient [...]
Why Are Cesarean Rates Are So High? Perspectives from the Trenches
A study in the most recent issue of Birth provides eye-opening illumination on non-medical reasons for high cesarean rates (Kennedy 2016). Investigators at Yale’s med-school affiliated hospital [...]
Admission in Active Labor Could Decrease Cesareans & Maternal Deaths in Low-Risk Women
Using the obstetric research to develop their underlying assumptions, investigators created a decision-analytic model to compare outcomes in a theoretical population of 3.2 million healthy, [...]