I have passed on this enquiry to Dianne Garland (Maidstone, Kent) who is
doing large scale audit work in this area. She will be getting a personal
e-mail soon but will reply direct to him.
I will construct my own 'hello' message soon?!
Jo
At 18:30 13/07/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:35:42 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: Water babies, throwing out babies with bathwater, water
baths, water
> births
>From: Andrew Brunskill <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>Reply-to: Andrew Brunskill <[log in to unmask]>
>
>The Washington State Medicaid Program has recently become aware it is
>paying for a number (? a lot?) of water births. I guess that these can
>vary from underwater births to warm water baths while giving birth. There
>are various opinions as to whether this is good, bad or we needn't bother
>our little bureaucratic heads about it. One opinion is that we should not
>reimburse for underwater births, another is that we should at least try to
>find out something before taking any step. The old adage "The state acts
>but does not think, the university thinks but does not act" sometimes
>seems painfully true. Does anyone have a nice document, reference,
>resource on water births generally? I Have looked at last years Cochrane
>and couldn't find anything, a few studies only on Medline (including as
>always a plea for more research!) etc. Some low powered small studies on
>infection rates (crying out for a meta-analysis). I haven't looked at all
>the other evidence based sites.
>sites yet. Present situation is a bit wishy washy. Andrew Brunskill.
>
>Andrew J Brunskill,
>University of Washington [log in to unmask]
>Washington State Medicaid Program [log in to unmask]
>
>
>Dr Jane Sandall
>Reader in Midwifery
>Department of Midwifery
>City University
>Philpot Street
>London
>E1 2EA
>Tel: 0171 505 5871
>Fax: 0171 505 5866
>
>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|