The REDUCE Campaign: Research and Education to Decrease Unnecessary Cesarean Sections
Welcome to the REDUCE Campaign where ACNM and like-minded organizations are calling for research and education to reduce unnecessary cesarean sections.
The REDUCE Campaign is an essential step for maternity care providers to consider “how” birth care is provided “with women”. The National Health Service in England has launched a major campaign to examine best birth practices and two resources are provided at the links below. Holly Powell Kennedy, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN, University of California, San Francisco is spending seven months at King’s College London as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar examining how these guidelines are being implemented and will share these with the ACNM membership at the 2008 ACNM Annual Meeting in Boston.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued a statement on May 9, 2006 titled 'Patient-Reguested Cesarean Debate': "ACOG continues to review all of the issues surrounding maternal-request cesarean, but at this time our position is that cesareans should be performed for medical reasons," says Stanley Zinberg, MD, MS, ACOG deputy executive vice president, and vice president of ACOG's Practice Activities division.
