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White Paper: Cesarean Deliveries

The November 2012 publication in Obstetrics and Gynecology (The Green Journal)

 Creating a Public Agenda for Maternity Safety and Quality in Cesarean Delivery

We are pleased to announce the December 2011 release of:       (click on title to download)

A CMQCC White Paper

Cesarean Deliveries, Outcomes, and Opportunities for Change in California:

Toward a Public Agenda for Maternity Care Safety and Quality

(86 pages)

[Executive Summary only]

(10 pages)

Elliott Main, MD, Christine Morton, PhD
David Hopkins, PhD, Giovanna Giuliani, MBA, MPH
Kathryn Melsop, MS and Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH

This paper is a joint project of the CMQCC, CPQCC and the Pacific Business Group on Health and was funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, based in Oakland, California.

Profile in Improvement

Learn how Shabbir Ahmad of California Department of Public Health’s Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Program is leading the State’s efforts to assess indicators of maternal morbidity and mortality and improve safe motherhood in California.