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Evidence to Improve Care

Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC)

Care for People Who Have Had a Caesarean Birth and Are Planning Their Next Birth



Ontario Health thanks the following individuals for their generous, voluntary contributions of time and expertise to help create this quality standard (credentials at the time of initial development in 2018):

Manavi Handa (Co-Chair)
Registered Midwife, Associate Professor
Ryerson University

Modupe Tunde-Byass (Co-Chair)
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
North York General Hospital

Nicolette Caccia
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Humber River Hospital

Pilar Chapman
Registered Midwife
West Lincoln Memorial Hospital

Shasta Cividino
Clinical Manager, Birthing Services
Trillium Health Partners

Tracie Delisle
Nurse Clinician
Health Sciences North

Perle Feldman
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
McGill University

Joanne Mackenzie
Senior Director, Women’s & Infants’ Health
Sinai Health System

Cathy Ottenhof
Better Outcomes Registry and Network (BORN) Coordinator
BORN Ontario

Catherine Pepevnak
Lived Experience Advisor

Steve Sears
Family Physician
Temiskaming Hospital & Temiskaming Shores

Patricia Smith
Deputy Chief Obstetrics
Division Head, Maternal Fetal Medicine
McMaster University Medical Centre

Ontario Health thanks the PCMCH Maternal-Newborn Advisory Committee, chaired by Gareth Seaward and Siobhan Chisholm, for providing feedback on the original publication of this quality standard, as well as the Better Outcomes Registry and Network Ontario for providing data that informed the 2024 update to the quality standard.

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