Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 2 , Pages 75-78 , March 2008

Achieving the Institute of Medicine’s Six Aims for Improvement in Maternity Care

  • Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Carol Sakala, Childbirth Connection, 281 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. Phone: 212 777-5000, x5.
    • ,
  • Maureen P. Corry, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH, is Director of Programs and Maureen P. Corry, MPH, is Executive Director at Childbirth Connection (formerly Maternity Center Association). Their work focuses on improving the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. The authors are co-investigators of the national Listening to Mothers II survey.

Received 14 November 2007 ,Accepted 6 December 2007.

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PII: S1049-3867(07)00185-5

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 2 , Pages 75-78 , March 2008

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