A retrospective cohort study of 863 pregnancies cared for by family physicians at three sites—
rural-rural (RR), rural-urban (RU), and urban-urban (UU)—was designed to test the …

Objective. We compared outcomes, safety, and resource utilization in a collaborative
management birth center model of perinatal care versus traditional physician-based care …

OBJECTIVE: This article describes the process by which the Arkansas Medicaid Program,
the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (the state's only academic health center) …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the obstetric outcome of a primary-care
access clinic staffed by certified nurse-midwives, supervised by a private practice group of …

Since the 1970s, most births in the United States have been planned to occur in a hospital.
However, a small percentage of Americans choose to give birth outside of a hospital. The …

Background: The number of births attended by individual family physicians who practice
intrapartum care varies. We wanted to determine if the practice–volume relations that have …

OBJECTIVE To compare the obstetric practices of family physicians who attended fewer
than 25 births per year (low-volume) with the practices of family physicians who attended …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate perinatal morbidity by delivery location (hospital,
freestanding birth center, and home). STUDY DESIGN: Selected 2006 US birth certificate …

The last decade witnessed a movement toward out-of-hospital binh. Licensed free standing
birth centers (FSBCs) proliferated and, by 1984, over 100 were operating in the US This …

At nearly 4 million deliveries each year, birth is one of themostcommonreasonswomenarehospitali…
United States. 1 Costs for US maternity care are among the most expensive in the world. A …