The Lancet has devoted an issue to maternal health that includes a systematic review of maternity care practice guidelines entitled: “Beyond too little, too late and too much, too soon: a pathway towards evidence-based, respectful maternity care worldwide.” It joins a...
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Leapfrog 2015 Survey Finds Few U.S. Hospitals Come Up to Snuff on Maternity Care
The Leapfrog Group, which collects data on a voluntary basis from hospitals and compares results with national standards in order to evaluate quality of care, opens its 2015 report on U.S. maternity care with: “[T]here is substantial evidence that U.S. hospitals...