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Cesarean Delivery
Lower cesarean delivery rate correlates with patient satisfaction
August 4th, 2005
Lower cesarean delivery rate correlates with patient satisfaction. Investigators in the United States assessed "the relationship between patient satisfaction with the prenatal care provider and a gravid woman's risk of cesarean delivery. They reviewed medical records of 586 consecutive deliveries in a single obstetrics department." The delivery mode was correlated to the providers' overall patient satisfaction score as measured by an ongoing mail survey. Mann-Whitney U tests and 2-tailed t tests were used. "On the basis of the prenatal provider, not the delivering physician, the cesarean section delivery rates fell into 3 groups:...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-08-04)
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