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That is a biased source of information.

• rayiner 12y ago
  She's describing a study commissioned by Oregon, conducted by a midwife.
  • tarminian 12y ago
    The study was a retrospective study, they looked at data from birth certificates that did not sort out planned and unplanned homebirths and did not sort out the type of midwife (trained vs untrained). Here is a better study to consider: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22015871 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22015871 .
    • mcv 12y ago
      I think if you want to do a good study, you need to compare a system where home births are the default (like in Netherland) with one where hospital births are the default, but the health care situation is otherwise comparable.
• rayiner 12y ago
  She's describing a study commissioned by Oregon, conducted by a midwife.