PErineal Assessment and Repair Longitudinal Study (PEARLS): Protocol for a matched pair cluster trial

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bick, Debra E ^a   Kettle, Christine ^b,c   Macdonald, Sue ^d   Thomas, Peter W ^e   Hills, Robert K ^f   Ismail, Khaled M K ^c,g  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL COLLEGE OF MIDWIVES   (United Kingdom)

^e BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSTETRIC CARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERINEUM INJURY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUTURING METHOD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VAGINAL DELIVERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INJURY; LABOR COMPLICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; PERINEUM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPISIOTOMY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS; PERINEUM; POSTNATAL CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77950110745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-10     Document Type: Article

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