Reviewing the best available evidence, this report shows that many widely held beliefs about maternity care and liability lack empirical support.
Building Patient-Centeredness in the Real World
The accountable care organization began life as a catchphrase signifying a shift in the relationship between a hospital and its doctors. By forming an ACO, a hospital and medical staff shared clinical and financial responsibility for coordinating care to improve...
Vaginal or Cesarean Birth: What is at Stake for Moms and Babies? A Best Evidence Review
REPORT | This report focuses on adverse consequences of cesarean, and also explores adverse outcomes that may be intrinsic to labor or vaginal birth.
5 Reasons Expanding Medicaid Coverage Matters to Women and Families
FACT SHEET | The Medicaid expansion included in the Affordable Care Act is an historic opportunity to extend much needed health care coverage to millions of lower income Americans.
Making IT Meaningful: How Consumers Value and Trust Health IT
As the nation progresses with the hard work of reforming the health care delivery system, the widespread adoption of health information technology (health IT) has become a national priority. A broad range of health care providers is working to implement and...
Health Information Technology (IT) Glossary and Acronym List
GLOSSARY | The following is a glossary of Health Information Technology (IT) acronyms and terms.
Why Women Need the Affordable Care Act: Older Women Need ACA
FACT SHEET | Because women live longer, they make up more than half of the Medicare population and are more likely to have multiple chronic conditions. As both caregivers and patients, older women have borne the brunt of shortcomings in our health care system – high...
Why Women Need the Affordable Care Act: Prevention & Wellness
FACT SHEET | Women are often not receiving the preventive or chronic care management services they need to stay healthy. This is especially true for minority women and women with disabilities.
Why Women Need the Affordable Care Act: Health Status
FACT SHEET | Compared with men, women are more likely to be in fair or poor health and face greater rates of disease or chronic conditions on a number of indicators. This is compounded for women of color, women with disabilities, and lesbians.
Why Women Need the Affordable Care Act: Coverage Statistics
FACT SHEET | Family economic insecurity is on the rise. Increasing numbers of women and families are losing employer-sponsored insurance and either going without insurance or enrolling in Medicaid.
Why Women Need the Affordable Care Act: Affordability
Women on average earn less than men and are more likely to live in poverty. Female households, which are on the rise, are especially at risk of of living in poverty. Many women also have caregiving responsibilities, which limit their time and ability to work outside...
Comfort in Labor: How You Can Help Yourself to a Normal Satisfying Childbirth
This booklet by expert Penny Simkin offers information and direction for using comfort measures to cope with labor pain.
Listening to Mothers II: Report of the Second National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005.
Listening to Mothers II: Survey Instrument (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This is the survey instrument.
Pain Medications Preference Scale by Penny Simkin
FACT SHEET | A pregnant woman and her partner may use this scale to determine their preferences regarding her use of pain medications in labor.
