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Article: A look at the NIH panel report on cesarean delivery on maternal request.(National Institutes of Health)
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- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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On March 27-29, 2006, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) brought together a panel of health professionals and public representatives to review scientific literature and discuss and prepare a state-of-the-science statement regarding cesarean delivery on maternal request (CDMR). The panel included twelve physicians, one nurse midwife, one nurse, three professors, and one attorney. There were 18 speakers during this conference including obstetricians, a urogynecologist, a pediatrician, professors in statistics and epidemiology, a research analyst, and a health correspondent for PBS.
Following the conclusion of the conference a state-of-the-science statement was ...