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Itzhak Jacoby, PhD
Office of Medical Applications of Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md

JAMA. 1985;253(22):3248.

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To the Editor.—

In a recent issue of JAMA Dr Gleicher¹ drew some conclusions about the impact of the 1980 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Cesarean Childbirth, conclusions reflected in the subtitle of his article, "The Short-term Failure of the National Consensus Development Conference in 1980." Given the data presented, the conclusions do not seem warranted.

Gleicher's principal reason for considering the program to be a failure is that national cesarean rates, which had been rising for some time before . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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