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Adding my uneducated guess: - there's some evidence that healthcare in general can benefit from deliberate less intervention by patients and medical staff [0]
by 627467 6y ago
Adding my uneducated guess:
- there's some evidence that healthcare in general can benefit from deliberate less intervention by patients and medical staff [0]
- maternity intervention is notorious for intervention (historically for good reasons) yet, today, so much extra can be profited by just pre-planning interventions that are distorting incentives [1]
- pandemic has raised the stakes of leaving home, particularly visiting hospitals so people think twice before deciding to go for intervention - patients preserveer more. That includes expecting mothers.
[0] this an opinion https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/19/patients-hospital-care-over-intervention https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/19/patien...
[1] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/too-much-too-soon-addressing-over-intervention-maternity-care https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/too-much-too-soon-address...
- paublyrne 6y agoThis seems plausible if induced labours were not excluded from the data sets.
- 627467 6y agothis question will sound as uneducated as the speculation above: aren't induced labours only 1 scenario of (possibly) superfluous intervention? Also, I couldn't find reference in the article where they describe that data as being excluded..
- sebazzz 6y agoI was thinking in terms of less travel induced stress, both physical and mental.
- pacamara619 6y agoIn Switzerland we had a massive spike in untreated heart attacks precisely because your third point. It's good that people don't go to the ER for minor things but people should know that symptoms of a heart attack are not to be taken lightly.