ACOG committee opinionACOG Committee on Ethics Number 289, November 2003: Surgery and Patient Choice: The Ethics of Decision Making
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Ethical issues in cesarean delivery
2017, Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and GynaecologyCitation Excerpt :Patient-choice cesarean delivery (also known as maternal-choice cesarean delivery) has become controversial throughout the world. In the United States, for example, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) stated that, while the right of patients to refuse unwanted surgery is well accepted, less clear is the right of patients to have a surgical procedure when scientific evidence supporting it is incomplete, of poor quality, or totally lacking [17]. The Committee concluded that the evidence to support the benefit of non-indicated cesarean delivery is still incomplete and that there is not yet extensive morbidity and mortality data to compare cesarean delivery with planned vaginal delivery.
The professional responsibility model of obstetric ethics and caesarean delivery
2013, Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and GynaecologyCitation Excerpt :Patient-choice caesarean delivery (also known as maternal-choice caesarean delivery) has become controversial worldwide. In the USA, for example, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists stated in a committee opinion in 2003 that, although the right of patients to refuse unwanted surgery is well known, less clear is the right of patients to have a surgical procedure when scientific evidence supporting it is incomplete, of poor quality, or totally lacking.23 The committee concluded that the evidence to support the benefit of caesarean delivery is still incomplete, and extensive morbidity and mortality data are still not available to compare caesarean delivery with planned vaginal delivery.
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