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Women’s health & midwifery
Low-risk caesarean among black women may be independent of hospital structural characteristics
  1. Sonia Minooee
  1. James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sonia Minooee, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; s.minooee{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103912

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    Commentary on: Clark RRS, Peele ME, Srinivas S, Lake ET. Racial disparities in low-risk cesarean birth rates across hospitals. Birth. 2023 Oct 6. doi: 10.1111/birt.12778. Epub ahead of print.

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    Implications for practice and research

    • Reducing high rates of medically unnecessary caesarean surgeries among black women requires changes at both structural and clinician levels.

    • Participatory research with diverse teams of clinicians may seek to explore the role of cultural sensitivity in reducing the unconscious bias of care providers regarding black women.

    Context

    Racial disparities have been shown to increase the likelihood of low-risk caesarean (LRC) among non-Hispanic black or Hispanic people compared to white people.1 In a cross-sectional study, Clark et al2 compared the caesarean birth rates of black and white women at low risk for caesarean birth across hospitals that were categorised into low, …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.