Evaluating Midwifery Units (EMU): A prospective cohort study of freestanding midwifery units in New South Wales, Australia

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Monk, Amy ^a   Tracy, Mark ^a   Foureur, Maralyn ^b   Grigg, Celia ^a   Tracy, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FREESTANDING MIDWIFERY UNIT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR ONSET; LABOR STAGE 3; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MIDWIFE; NEONATAL WELL BEING; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SPECIAL CARE NURSERY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WELLBEING; DELIVERY; DELIVERY ROOM; LABOR INDUCTION; MALE; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BIRTHING CENTERS; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY ROOMS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LABOR, INDUCED; MALE; MIDWIFERY; NEW SOUTH WALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84911409798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006252     Document Type: Article

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