✅ Variation in organisational factors across high- and low-performing hospitals with regard to spontaneous vaginal birth for Black women in four states: a cross-sectional descriptive study

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Objective To describe variation in hospital organisational factors across high- and low-performing hospitals with regard to spontaneous vaginal birth (SVB) for Black women. Design Cross-sectional descriptive. Setting We conducted a cross-sectional study using three datasets in four states from 2016, including the American Hospital Association Annual Survey, administrative discharge abstracts and a survey in which nurses served as informants about the organisational factors in their hospitals. Hospitals were categorised based on whether they achieved (1) the SVB rate target for Black women at low risk for caesarean birth, (2) the SVB rate target for Black women at low risk for caesarean birth and equivalent SVB rates between Black and White women at low risk for ...

BMJ     Nov 04, 2024