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Public health
fromBusiness Insider
4 hours ago

Neighboring hospitals have drastically different C-section rates. Financial pressures help explain why.

Hiring a nurse-midwife at Princeton Baptist sharply reduced low-risk C-section rates, enabling far more vaginal births despite institutional resistance and financial incentives for C-sections.
Public health
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

C-section rates vary widely by hospital, but transparency is rare. A map shows the states that withhold data.

Hospital C-section rates strongly predict unnecessary cesareans, yet most states do not publicly publish hospital-level C-section data.
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