A comparison of partnership caseload midwifery care with conventional team midwifery care: Labour and birth outcomes

Midwifery

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 234-240

  Benjamin, Yvonne ^a   Walsh, Denis ^b   Taub, Nick ^c  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING, TEAM; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIMARY NURSING CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0035458863     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/midw.2001.0257     Document Type: Article

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