Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings: Report of a Study

by Committee On Assessing Alternative Birth, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, et al.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) collaborated in this study with the Board on Maternal, Child, and Family Health Research of the Commission on Life Sciences of the National Research Council (NRC) to determine methodologies needed to evaluate current childbirth settings in the United States. Although the proportion of non-hospital births runs as high as 4.4 percent annually in Oregon, insufficient data exist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309033373
• ISBN13: 9780309033374
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.0"