TY - JOUR
T1 - Are private obstetric services safer and more cost effective than midwife-led care in Australia?
AU - Hirschhorn-Edwards, Natasha
AU - Dahlen, Hannah
AU - Kildea, Sue
AU - Tracy, Sally K.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - A paper published this week reported that private obstetricians in private hospitals provide the safest and most cost-effective care. Although the authors cleverly compared a matched cohort of women linking some clinical and cost outcomes, two very different systems of care were compared: one that offers less than one quarter of Australian couples a personal choice of caregiver and place of birth (private care) compared to the other that caters for all comers (public care).
AB - A paper published this week reported that private obstetricians in private hospitals provide the safest and most cost-effective care. Although the authors cleverly compared a matched cohort of women linking some clinical and cost outcomes, two very different systems of care were compared: one that offers less than one quarter of Australian couples a personal choice of caregiver and place of birth (private care) compared to the other that caters for all comers (public care).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105015461932&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/westernsydney.edu.au?url=https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.18365
U2 - 10.1111/1471-0528.18365
DO - 10.1111/1471-0528.18365
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105015461932
SN - 1470-0328
JO - BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
JF - BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ER -
