Midwifery

Study shows that midwives provide equivalent maternity care for less money

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 4th, 2003

A recent study published in American Journal of Public Health documents that low-risk patients receiving collaborative midwifery care have birth success rates comparable to those who saw only physicians, at far less cost to the healthcare system.

The two-and-a-half-year prospective cohort study, funded by the U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, utilizing concurrent comparison groups totaling 2957 women, revealed that mothers receiving collaborative/birth center/midwifery care:

1) Spent less time in the birth center/hospital.

2) Experienced fewer caesarean births.

3) Experienced fewer...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-09-04)

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