Caesarean sections and private insurance: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Financial incentives associated with private insurance may encourage healthcare providers to perform more caesarean sections. We therefore sought to determine the association of private insurance and odds of caesarean section.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data sources

MEDLINE, Embase and The Cochrane Library from the first year of records through August 2016.

Eligibility criteria

We included studies that reported data to allow the calculation of OR of caesarean section of privately insured as compared with publicly insured women.

Outcomes

The prespecified primary outcome was the adjusted OR of births delivered by caesarean section of women covered with private insurance as compared with women covered with public insurance. The pr

SUBMITTER: Hoxha I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629699 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature