- Overdue: Medicaid and Private Insurance Coverage of Doula Care to Strengthen Maternal and Infant Health (2016) outlines the health and cost benefits of doula care and details federal, state and local strategies to increase insurance coverage.
- Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care (2015) synthesizes scientific research on how hormone systems function from late pregnancy through the early postpartum period and concludes that commonly used maternity interventions can disturb hormonal processes and interfere with the benefits they offer.
- Maternity Care and Liability: Pressing Problems, Substantive Solutions (2013) summarizes the best available research about the impact of the health care liability system on maternity care and policy strategies to improve functioning of the liability system in maternity care.
- The Cost of Having a Baby in the United States (2013) analyzes costs related to maternity care across a number of variables.
- Cochrane Review: Continuous Support for Women during Childbirth (2017 review), a systematic review of the research literature, concludes that all women should have continuous support during labor.
- Vaginal or Cesarean Birth: What Is at Stake for Women and Babies? A Best Evidence Review (2012) focuses on adverse consequences of cesarean and adverse outcomes that may be intrinsic to labor or vaginal birth.
- The Transforming Maternity Care project engaged more than 100 health care leaders in developing two direction-setting reports in 2010, 2020 Vision for a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System and Blueprint for Action: Steps Toward a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System. They focus on collective efforts to reverse troubling trends and achieving high-quality, high-value maternity care. These and related materials are available here.
- Evidence-based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve (2008) cites an extensive body of evidence to make the case that, despite high costs, women in the United States do not receive the best maternity care. It is a comprehensive review of how maternity care is delivered, financed and experienced by mothers, families and health care payers. It concludes that maternity care can be significantly improved using evidence-based care.
