WOW, JUST WOW!!! This is everything that any informed mother, doula, midwife, birth advocate, and evidence-based practicing OB has known and been trying to get others to understand!!! And this is from an AMA publication. :) "To use evidence properly, clinicians need to share evidence with patients so that they can make well-informed choices about their care. Evidence is ethically essential to informed consent, and employment of evidence is an ethical duty of the clinician. Nevertheless, in many U.S. hospitals today, the management of labor and delivery doesn’t look very evidence-based. Many well-intentioned obstetricians still employ technological interventions that are scientifically unsupported or that run counter to the evidence of what is safest for mother and child. They do so not because a well-informed pregnant woman has indicated that her values contradict what is scientifically supported, a situation that might justify a failure to follow the evidence. They do so out of tradition, fear, and the (false) assumption that doing something is usually better than doing nothing [2]." virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2013/09/msoc1-1309.html
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 20:56:38 +0000
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