Health policies for the reduction of obstetric interventions in singleton full-term births in Catalonia

Maria-Jesus Pueyo, Ramon Escuriet, M. Pérez-Botella, I. de Molina, D. Ruíz-Berdun, S. Albert, S. Díaz, P. Torres-Capcha and Vicente Ortun

Health Policy, 2018, vol. 122, issue 4, 367-372

Abstract: To explore the effect of hospital's characteristics in the proportion of obstetric interventions (OI) performed in singleton fullterm births (SFTB) in Catalonia (2010–2014), while incentives were employed to reduce C-sections.

Keywords: Cesarea; Obstetric interventions; Level of complexity; Volume of births; Non-medicalized delivery; Health policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.01.016

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