Table 1.

Labor Culture Survey¹⁸ Agreement With Best Practices to Reduce Cesarean Delivery

Best Practice, % in agreement	Registered Nurses			Medical Doctors
Best Practice, % in agreement	Nonresponder Hospitals (n = 281)	Successful Hospitals (n = 378)	P Value	Nonresponder Hospitals (n = 41)	Successful Hospitals (n = 130)	P Value
Providing more midwifery service	61.4	66.1	.23	24.4	45.4	.017^{^a}
Implementing a program that supports early labor at home	87.2	89.3	.44	57.5	76.2	.022^{^a}
Providing more direct (in room) nursing time with laboring women	75.2	81.9	.045^{^a}	68.3	81.4	.077
Providing more doula services	40.2	47.9	.06	17.1	43.9	.002^{^a}
Reducing the number of inductions of labor for nonmedical indications	96.4	94.6	.30	63.4	85.4	.002^{^a}