Dania Palanker, Kevin Lucia, and Emily Curran, health policy researchers at Georgetown University, pointed to a series of potential trouble spots that could arise under the plans. (businessinsider.com)
In a new, hospital - level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Katy Kozhimannnil at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, they report that women who gave birth at hospitals that had a larger percentage of midwife - attended births were less likely to have two specific medical interventions, cesarean delivery and episiotomy. (sciencedaily.com)
«We spend a lot less time talking about whether health is improving with that spending,» says health policy researcher Allison Rosen of the University of Michigan Health System. (scientificamerican.com)