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These Guidelines were developed by the Collaboration Task Force of the Home Birth Summit (HBS). This task force formed at the HBS in 2011 to address the Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication vision statement. The task force is comprised of obstetricians, family medicine physicians, midwives, consumers, women’s health advocates, and nurses. This task force researched existing standards for universal intrapartum transport, transfer, consultation, and collaboration guidelines for all professionals who are involved when a woman or baby is transferred to a hospital from a planned home birth, as well as the evidence on practices that lead to improved interprofessional coordination.