Audit of a new model of birth care for women with low risk pregnancies in South Africa: the primary care onsite midwife-led birth unit (OMBU)

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hofmeyr, George Justus ^a,b,c   Mancotywa, Thozeka ^c   Silwana kwadjo, Nomvula ^c   Mgudlwa, Batembu ^b   Lawrie, Theresa A ^d   Gülmezoglu, Ahmet Metin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Eastern Cape Department of Health   (South Africa)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Midwife led unit; Ombu; Onsite birth unit; Primary birth care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL AUDIT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LOW RISK PREGNANCY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; ONSITE MIDWIFE LED BIRTH UNIT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; DELIVERY ROOM; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; INFANT; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DELIVERY ROOMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84964315502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-014-0417-8     Document Type: Article

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