Using evidence-based care to improve women's health in childbirth.

摘要

Like many of you, I keep a number of interesting things affixed to my office door for all to see. These items include photos, postcards, maps, artwork, slogans, and announcements, and these are periodically removed and updated. One item has been there a long time, maybe 4 years now. It is a bumper sticker with this message: "SURPRISE! Midwifery is the evidence-based model of maternity care!" I have not removed it, because this statement is not meant to be provocative; it is not a joke. It is actually the truth, and this is a good time for the profession as a whole to embrace it and use it to the benefit of women's health.