Obstetrician and nurse-midwife collaboration: Successful public health and private practice partnership

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 663-672

  Shaw Battista, Jenna ^a   Fineberg, Annette ^a   Boehler, Barbara ^a   Skubic, Blanche ^a   Woolley, Deborah ^a   Tilton, Zoe ^a  

^a West Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR INDUCTION; LANGUAGE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NURSE MIDWIFE; OBESITY; OBSTETRICIAN; PERINEAL LACERATION; PERINEUM INJURY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; UNITED STATES; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; WATER IMMERSION;

EID: 80052176627     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31822ac86f     Document Type: Article

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