Thursday, August 6, 2009
Realigning the C-section incentives
Check out my new piece on Crosscut about steps Washington state is taking to reduce C-sections by, as President Obama would say, "realigning incentives. It's on the homepage right now; find the permalink here.
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I LOVE this. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing it to public attention. And thank you Washington State for taking the lead!
Even though he wouldn't give you the cesarean rate hospital to hospital, that information is publicly available through the Department of Health. I took the time to compile the data: www.snohomishcountydoula.com/2008hospitalcesareanrates.pdf
Great! Thanks for doing this. I wish, though, that hospitals were required to provide these stats and others (such as episiotomy rates, etc) to all prospective childbirth patients.
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