Researching labour and birth events using health information records: methodological challenges

Midwifery

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 701-710

  Flood, Margaret ^a   Small, Rhonda ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data collection; Health information records; Labour and birth events; Medical records; Obstetric records; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947648711     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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