Defining and developing the birth centre

Practising Midwife

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 18-21

  Stewart, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN; NOMENCLATURE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BIRTHING CENTERS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 23044448538     PISSN: 14613123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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