Time to listen: Strategies to improve hospital-based postnatal care

Women and Birth

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 99-105

  Schmied, Virginia ^a   Cooke, Margaret ^b   Gutwein, Rosalind ^c   Steinlein, Elizabeth ^c   Homer, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment of health care needs; Communication; Health services research; Midwifery; Postnatal care; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD PARENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATERNAL CARE; PATIENT CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PUERPERIUM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 48449094746     PISSN: 18715192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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