Midwife-led continuity models versus other models of care for childbearing women

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Sandall, Jane ^a   Soltani, Hora ^b   Gates, Simon ^c   Shennan, Andrew ^a   Devane, Declan ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST CONTROL; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS WASTAGE; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN DEATH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ECONOMICS; INFANT; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDWIFERY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84893426212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004667.pub3     Document Type: Review

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