Continuity of care: What matters to women when they are referred from primary to secondary care during labour? A qualitative interview study in the Netherlands

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  De Jonge, Ank ^a   Stuijt, Rosan ^a   Eijke, Iva ^a   Westerman, Marjan J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth experience; Continuity of patient care; Home childbirth; Intrapartum care; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABOR; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR ONSET; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDWIFE; MULTIPARA; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIMIPARA; PUERPERIUM; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ANALGESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FETUS DISTRESS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MIDWIFERY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SECONDARY CARE;

EID: 84899110174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-103     Document Type: Article

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