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50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Women Are Travelling to Hospitals With Lower Risk Adjusted Sea Section Rates

There is a shortening in gestational age, and that seems like it's because women are more likely to have inductions performed on them. And you also then find that c section rates fall by a pretty meaningful amount. Part of that decline in c sections is likely coming through in increase in inductions. But much more than that, what we find is that women are travelling to hospitals that have lower risk adjusted sea section rates.

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