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Caesarean Sections And For-Profit Status Of Hospitals: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Ilir Hoxha, Lamprini Syrogiannouli, Xhyljeta Luta, Kali Tal, David C. Goodman
Caesarean Sections And For-Profit Status Of Hospitals: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Ilir Hoxha, Lamprini Syrogiannouli, Xhyljeta Luta, Kali Tal, David C. Goodman
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Objective: Financial incentives may encourage private for-profit providers to perform more caesarean section (CS) than non-profit hospitals. We therefore sought to determine the association of for-profit status of hospital and odds of CS.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from the first year of records through February 2016. Eligibility criteria: To be eligible, studies had to report data to allow the calculation of ORs of CS comparing private for-profit hospitals with public or private non-profit hospitals in a specific geographic area. Outcomes: The prespecified primary outcome was the adjusted OR …