While hospitals have made progress in improving maternal care outcomes in two of three areas, there is more work to be done on reducing the number of cesarean sections, according to The Leapfrog Group ...

In monthly meetings, Ms. Culver made doctors aware of their C-section rates compared with their peers’. She also hung “first ...

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She sits before me in tears, a positive pregnancy test on the counter in front of us. It’s not that my patient doesn’t want a fourth child. But she is haunted by memories of her third cesarean section ...

Doctors perform cesarean sections more frequently at Long Island hospitals than at counterparts elsewhere in New York, even though the surgery poses greater risks to mothers than vaginal births, a ...

Roughly one in 10 pregnant women in the US undergoes a cesarean section that experts say could have been avoided. One of the strongest predictors of her risk of a medically unnecessary C-section isn't ...

One of the best ways to avert an unnecessary C-section is to choose a hospital with low rates for the procedure, experts say. Yet pregnant women looking for this data may come up short. Only 11 states ...