These Hospitals Figured Out How to Slash C-Section Rates

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

C-section rates falling, but still too high at many hospitals, Leapfrog says

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 ...
Business Insider

C-section rates vary widely by hospital. Women often can't see the data.

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Scientific American

C-section Rates Are Way Too High. We Need to Hold Doctors and Hospitals Accountable

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 ...
AOL

C-section rates vary widely by hospital, but women often can't see the data

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 ...