A Successful Program to Lower Cesarean-Section Rates
- 8 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 319 (23), 1511-1516
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198812083192304
Abstract
Despite the consensus that national cesarean–section rates are excessive, they continue to rise. Currently, approximately one of every four deliveries is by cesarean section. We developed an initiative to reduce the number of cesarean deliveries to a rate of 11 percent of all deliveries at our inner-city hospital. Participation by attending physicians was voluntary and not linked to any sanction. The program included a stringent requirement for a second opinion, objective criteria for the four most common indications for cesarean section, and a detailed review of all cesarean sections and of individual physicians' rates of performing them.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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