Home-birth-like experience in hospitals ultimately safer, more satisfying and cost effective for patients

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png Advocates of planned home birth have emphasized its benefits for patient safety, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and respect for women's rights. A clinical opinion paper published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology critically evaluates each of these claims in its effort to identify professionally appropriate responses of obstetricians and other concerned physicians to planned home birth.

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