Should c/s rates be published? Naming & shaming...

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I think we are actually focusing on knowledge not birth, prego3. I know I am.

I think if I saw stats for, say KEMH, which takes on high risk pregnancies from all over Perth, and the stats reflect a higher c/s rate, I would imagine that as someone with some intellect, I would interpret that differently to, say, a private hospital which wouldn't touch a high risk birth with a ten foot pole, but still has a ridiculously high c/s rate.

So I think I'm able to make that distinction personally. But the idea of more information such as the 'why's of the stats would be fab too. Of course I'd want the real 'why's, and not just what the ob's reasoning was, though.