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White Paper: Cesarean Deliveries

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.

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