School of Medicine Publications and Presentations
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2018
Abstract
The Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing charts an efficient pathway to a maternity care system that reliably enables all women and newborns to experience healthy physiologic processes around the time of birth, to the extent possible given their health needs and informed preferences. The authors are members of a multistakeholder, multidisciplinary National Advisory Council that collaborated to develop this document. This approach preventively addresses troubling trends in maternal and newborn outcomes and persistent racial and other disparities by mobilizing innate capacities for healthy childbearing processes and limiting use of consequential interventions. It provides more appropriate care to healthier, lower-risk women and newborns who often receive more specialized care, though such care may not be needed and may cause unintended harm. It also offers opportunities to improve the care, experience and outcomes of women with health challenges by fostering healthy perinatal physiologic processes whenever safely possible.
Recommended Citation
Avery, M. D., Bell, A. D., Bingham, D., Corry, M. P., Delbanco, S. F., Gullo, S. L., Ivory, C. H., Jennings, J. C., Kennedy, H. P., Kozhimannil, K. B., Leeman, L., Lothian, J. A., Miller, H. D., Ogburn, T., Romano, A., Sakala, C., & Shah, N. T. (2018). Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing. The Journal of perinatal education, 27(3), 130–134. https://doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.27.3.130
Publication Title
The Journal of Perinatal Education
DOI
10.1891/1058-1243.27.3.130
Academic Level
faculty
Mentor/PI Department
Obstetrics and Gynecology
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