☆アメリカで出産☆コミュの米国初の産婦人科の評価／ランキングサイトができました

帝王切開や陣痛促進剤を使った出産が多いアメリカでは、
希望するバースプランに合う産婦人科、助産婦を探すのが難しいと思います。
その様な状況の中で産婦人科の不透明さを無くそうと、医療関係者やお産に
携わる助産婦さん達が数ヶ月前にTheBirthSurveyというサイトを立ち上げました。

このサイトでは、一般女性がかかった産婦人科を評価し、その結果を検索できる
ようになっています。全米の医師、助産婦,　病院、バースセンターの評価が地域
ごとに検索できるので、産婦人科選びに役立つと思います。私は関係者でもないの
ですが、妊娠中にあまり産婦人科医の情報が手に入らなかったので、同じ想いを
されている方がいらっしゃるのでは、と思いトピを立てました。

3歳以下のお子さんがいらっしゃる方は是非一度TheBirthSurveyのアンケートを
行ってみて下さい。8月に立ち上がったばかりのサイトなので、皆で評価を投稿して
充実したサイトにしませんか？

www.thebirthsurvey.com


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OVERVIEW

The Transparency in Maternity Care Project was birthed in February of 2006 by the Grassroots Advocates Committee (GAC) of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS). We are a volunteer group dedicated to ensuring public access to quality of care information specifically related to maternity care providers and institutions. It is our intention to extend the current social trend toward transparency in health care into the virtually overlooked maternity care arena.

The Birth Survey is structured around the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) evidence-based 10 Steps to Mother-Friendly Care and other quality of care indicators. The creation of The Birth Survey has been inspired by Childbirth Connection's Listening to Mothers Survey (Harris Interactive, October 2002) and the A-CAHPS (Ambulatory Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) program and surveys.

We believe that women of childbearing age must have access to information that will help them choose maternity care providers and institutions that are most compatible with their own philosophies and needs. We hope that the Transparency in Maternity Care Project will provide information that will help women make fully informed maternity care decisions.

We also believe that maternity care practitioners and institutions must have access to feedback from their patients. We hope that doctors, midwives, and hospital administrators will find the information generated through the Transparency in Maternity Care Project useful in quality improvement efforts.

Women need accurate, objective data in order to make fully informed choices about birth settings and providers. Practitioners and hospital administrators also need data to evaluate whether they are delivering quality care. We hope this project will fill a void by providing much needed information that benefits all parties engaged in maternity care.