Ethics and professional responsibility: Essential dimensions of planned home birth

Planned home birth is a paradigmatic case study of the importance of ethics and professionalism in contemporary perinatology. In this article we provide a summary of recent analyses of the Centers for Disease Control database on attendants and birth outcomes in the United States. This summary documents the increased risks of neonatal mortality and morbidity of planned home birth as well as bias in Apgar scoring. We then describe the professional responsibility model of obstetric ethics, which is based on the professional medical ethics of two major figures in the history of medical ethics, Drs.

Source: Seminars in Perinatology - January 21, 2016 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Laurence B. McCullough, Amos Grünebaum, Birgit Arabin, Robert L. Brent, Malcolm I. Levene, Frank A. Chervenak Source Type: research