A quarter of hospitals
performing births in Italy fall below the minimum safety
threshold of 500 births per year, a health ministry report said
Monday.
A total of 133 out of 521 hospitals examined in the Esiti
2014 (2014 results) report did not meet a 2010 regulation that
called for terminating obstetrics in facilities that did not
assist more than 500 births annually.
The regulation was put in place after it was demonstrated
that higher volumes of births led to better health outcomes for
women and their children.
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