Caesarean sections and for-profit status of hospitals: systematic review and meta-analysis

Conclusions CS are more likely to be performed by for-profit hospitals as compared with non-profit hospitals. This holds true regardless of women's risk and contextual factors such as country, year or study design. Since financial incentives are likely to play an important role, we recommend examination of incentive structures of for-profit hospitals to identify strategies that encourage appropriate provision of CS.

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Source: BMJ Open - February 16, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Hoxha, I., Syrogiannouli, L., Luta, X., Tal, K., Goodman, D. C., da Costa, B. R., Jüni, P. Tags: Open access, Health economics, Health policy, Health services research, Obgyn Source Type: research