Risk assessment and decision making about in-labour transfer from rural maternity care: A social judgment and signal detection analysis

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cheyne, Helen ^a   Dalgleish, Len ^a   Tucker, Janet ^b   Kane, Fiona ^a   Shetty, Ashalatha ^c   McLeod, Sarah ^d   Niven, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERDEEN MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS HIGHLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Labor; Maternity care; Risk assessment; Rural; Signal detection theory; Social judgment theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; PATIENT TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SCOTLAND; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868257226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-122     Document Type: Article

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