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Study shows that midwives provide equivalent maternity care for less money.
2003 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A recent study published in American Journal of Public Health documents that low-risk patients receiving collaborative midwifery care have birth success rates comparable to those who saw only physicians, at far less cost to the healthcare system.
The two-and-a-half-year prospective cohort study, funded by the U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, utilizing concurrent comparison groups totaling 2957 women, revealed that mothers receiving collaborative/birth center/midwifery care:
1) Spent less time in the birth center/hospital.
2) Experienced fewer caesarean births.
3) Experienced fewer vacuum- or forceps-assisted vaginal births.
4) Underwent fewer episiotomies.
5) Experienced less induction of labor.
- Midwifery care is a right.(mail)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Australian Nursing Journal Buck, Allison February 1, 2006 700+ words
...highlights the right of healthy women to receive primary midwifery care throughout their pregnancy and birthing continuum. Obstetricians...there should be no discussion regarding the safety of midwifery care. Thank you for your support and presentation of a debate...
- Full Circle Midwifery Care.(HEALTH CARE)(awards)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: New Hampshire Business Review December 8, 2006 700+ words
Full Circle Midwifery Care at St. Joseph Hospital, Nashua, has been named by survey group Press Ganey Associates as a 2006 Summit Award Winner for scoring in the top 5 percent nationally on patient satisfaction for three or more consecutive years.
- International Day of the Midwife 5 May 2008 'healthy families: the key to the...
- Magazine article from: International Midwifery December 1, 2007 700+ words
...to families, within a functioning health system and supportive environment, is a core element of primary health care. Midwifery care is unique in the way it can influence the health of future generations through giving new parents the physical well-being...
- Midwifery Care in Great Britain.
- Newspaper article from: Special Delivery January 1, 1997 700+ words
There is a movement in Britain to increase the role of midwives in the care of pregnant women. These British investigators randomized 1,299 women at an urban hospital serving indigent patients to receive care by midwives only or "shared care" by midwives, obstetricians, and general practitioners.
- Continuity of midwifery care--the practical guide.
- Magazine article from: New Zealand College of Midwives Journal Waller, Nimisha October 1, 2008 700+ words
Recently there has been much discussion about how we can continue to provide midwifery continuity of care while facing midwifery workforce issues, rising intervention rates and increased complexity in pregnant women. This book by renowned international contributors from Australia, New Zealand (Dr
- ACNM Cites Study: Nurse-Midwives Provide Equivalent Maternity Care for Less...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 4, 2003 700+ words
...receiving collaborative/birth center/midwifery care: -- Spent less time in the birth center/hospital -- Experienced...collaborative management/birth center programs in their array...validation of the value of midwifery care. "If you truly care...
- El Rio to partner with birth center: Cost savings aids beleaguered OB-GYN...
- Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) March 30, 2007 700+ words
...partnership Thursday, two days before the birth center will celebrate 25 years of nearly continuous...in managed-care payments forced the birth center to close for three months in 2002...partnership with El Rio will eliminate the birth center's malpractice insurance costs. El...
- Sen. Boxer Introduces Medicaid Birth Center Reimbursement Act
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 29, 2009 700+ words
...California, has introduced the Medicaid Birth Center Reimbursement Act (S. 1423), legislation...the Medicaid Program for freestanding birth center services." The bill, introduced on...of the legislation follows: Medicaid Birth Center Reimbursement Act S. 1423 A BILL To...
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