The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex
and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than …

Abstract Background The United States has the highest perinatal morbidity and mortality
(M&M) rates among all high‐resource countries in the world. Birth settings (birth center …

Abstract Background The United States (US) spends more on health care than any other
high‐resource country. Despite this, their maternal and newborn outcomes are worse than …

Maternity care in the United States continues to be intervention intensive. The routine use of
intravenous fluids, restrictions on eating and drinking, continuous electronic fetal monitoring …

The intrapartum period is a crucial time in the continuum of pregnancy and parenting. Events
during this time are shaped by individuals' unique sociocultural and health characteristics …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the comparative effectiveness and potential harms of cervical
ripening in the outpatient compared with the inpatient setting, or different methods of …

Introduction Many studies based on hospital records or vital statistics have found that
childbearing women experience benefits of lower rates of intervention with midwifery care …

Background It has been 4 years since the release of the study Labor Induction versus
Expectant Management in Low‐Risk Nulliparous Women, also known as the ARRIVE trial …

Full practice authority grants non-physician providers the ability to manage patient care
without physician oversight or direct collaboration. In this study, we consider whether full …

Introduction Studies comparing pregnancy outcomes before and after state transition to
independent midwifery practice have found little change in primary cesarean birth and …