How to decrease the number of caesarean sections in Italy

Abstract

The Director of the Obstetrics e Gynaecology Department of “San Leonardo” at Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) in the 2004 started a project focused on strong decreasing of the caesarean sections. This project exploited the methodologies of quality management used in Industrial and Services Industries and it succeeded in reducing the weight of caesarean sections from 52,7% to 17,5% of the total birth within 5 years.

Keywords::

• caesarean section reduction project
• quality management methodology

Declaration of interest: The authors declare that they didn’t received any support funding to carry out the study and that they haven’t any conflict of interest regarding the content of the article.