Obstetrics
Lower Mortality Rates for Infants Delivered By Certified Nurse-Midwives
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 29th, 1998
The new study from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in the May 1998 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, examined all single, vaginal births in the United States in 1991 delivered at 35-43 weeks of gestation by either physicians or certified nurse-midwives.
After controlling for a wide variety of social and medical risk factors, the risk of...
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