Costly use of birth interventions fail to improve health outcomes

“Findings from a two-year review of the science behind maternity care indicate that the common and costly use of many routine birth interventions, such as continuous electronic fetal monitoring, labor induction for low-risk women, and cesarean surgery, fail to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies and may cause harm.” Click HERE for the story.

Source: Black Hills Women News

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