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AN UPDATE ON RESEARCH ISSUES
IN THE ASSESSMENT OF BIRTH SETTINGS

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Leslie Pray, Rapporteur
Board on Children, Youth, and Families

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                  NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
                                    OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. An Update on Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18368.
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NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

This activity was supported by Grant No. P3020147 between the National Academy of Sciences and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The views presented in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the activity.

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Suggested citation: IOM (Institute of Medicine) and NRC (National Research Council). 2013. An update on research issues in the assessment of birth settings: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. An Update on Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18368.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH ISSUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF BIRTH SETTINGS: A WORKSHOP1

 

MAXINE HAYES (Chair), State Health Officer, State of Washington, Department of Health

SHERIN U. DEVASKAR, Professor of Pediatrics and Executive Chair, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

ELLEN HODNETT, Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty in Nursing, University of Toronto

HOLLY POWELL KENNEDY, Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery, School of Nursing, Yale University

THOMAS C. RICKETTS, Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Social Medicine, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

JEANNETTE A. ROGOWSKI, University Professor in Health Economics, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

DIANE L. ROWLEY, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BENJAMIN P. SACHS, Senior Vice President and Dean, James R. Doty Distinguished Professor and Chair, School of Medicine, Tulane University

 

IOM Staff

SHEILA MOATS, Study Director

JULIA HOGLUND, Research Associate (from May 2013)

DOUGLAS KANOVSKY, Senior Program Assistant

PATRICK BURKE, Financial Associate (until January 2013)

FAYE HILLMAN, Financial Associate (from January 2013)

PAMELA ATAYI, Administrative Assistant

KIMBER BOGARD, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families

1 Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the rapporteur and the institution.

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Reviewers

This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the summary meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this summary:

Kimberly Gregory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Amy J. Levi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Dale Reisner, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle

Marla E. Salmon, University of Washington

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the workshop summary before its release. The review of this workshop summary was overseen by Hugh H. Tilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this

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summary was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this workshop summary rests entirely with the rapporteur and the institution.

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More than 30 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee to determine methodologies and research needed to evaluate childbirth settings in the United States. The committee members reported their findings and recommendations in a consensus report, Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings (IOM and NRC, 1982). An Update on Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings is the summary of a workshop convened in March, 2013, to review updates to the 1982 report. Health care providers, researchers, government officials, and other experts from midwifery, nursing, obstetric medicine, neonatal medicine, public health, social science, and related fields presented and discussed research findings that advance our understanding of the effects of maternal care services in different birth settings on labor, clinical and other birth procedures, and birth outcomes. These settings include conventional hospital labor and delivery wards, birth centers, and home births. This report identifies datasets and relevant research literature that may inform a future ad hoc consensus study to address these concerns.

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