The purpose of this study was to compare indicators of process and outcome of midwifery services provided in the Quebec pilot projects to those associated with standard hospital-based medical services. Women receiving each type of care (961 per group) were matched on the basis of socio-demographic characteristics and level of obstetrical risk. We found midwifery care to be associated with less ...

Most midwives are aware of the need to collect clinical practice data and of its usefulness in supporting the care they provide, which contributes to healthy outcomes for mothers and babies. For the individual midwife, there is more than one easily accessible, standardized data collection instrument from which to choose. However, despite these choices, in an American College of Nurse-Midwives (...

The implementation of a new birthing facility in a country such as Brazil requires an extensive in-depth analysis of the challenges faced. The aim of this study was to explore beliefs, values, experiences, and practices related to the provision of birthing and neonatal care with the implementation of a new birth care facility structure called alongside midwifery units in Brazil. The study utili...

Objective: To evaluate caseload midwifery in a relatively deprived and ethnically diverse inner-city area. Design and setting: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 24 women from diverse ethnic backgrounds, 12 of whom had received caseload care and 12 women from an adjacent area who had received conventional maternity care in a large inner-city maternity unit. Framework analysis was a...

Pozitivní zkušenost žen s péčí v mateřství souvisí kvalitou péče a je stejně důležitá jako objektivně měřitelné perinatální výsledky. Spokojenost koncept relativně široký poměrně obtížnou operacionalizací. Nástroje pro její měření zahrnují nejčastěji proměnné týkající se struktury, procesu výsledků. Změnu současné praxe k lepšímu podmiňuje pře...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether continuing midwifery care has more benefits than standard maternity care in vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). METHODS This study was conducted on women in labour who had history of previous cesarean section and received vaginal birth in obstetrical department of our hospital from May 2013 to November 2014. The included patients were divided randomly into obse...

OBJECTIVE To identify potential risk or mishap in the system of intrapartum care, relating to the deployment of midwives. DESIGN Prospective semistructured observational study. SETTING Labour wards of seven maternity units in the north west of England. PARTICIPANTS All midwives working on the labour ward during the observation period in 2000. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE "Latent failures" withi...

Correction to: Effective Factors on Delayed Onset of Treatment in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction     Ensiyeh Rezaee1, Nasrin Hanifi2, Mahin Rohani3, Soghrat Faghih Zadeh4   1 MSc Student in Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Department of  Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursin...

Leili Yeke-Fallah, Zahra Eskandari, Akram Shahrokhi, Amir Javadi. PhD student of nursing, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Faculty member of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery School, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; M.Sc. student of intensive care nursing, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; Faculty member, Nursing a...

22 Background: The ability to act on and justify clinical decisions as autonomous accountable midwifery 23 practitioners, is encompassed within many international regulatory frameworks, yet decision-making 24 within midwifery is poorly defined. Decision-making theories from medicine and nursing may have 25 something to offer, but fail to take into consideration midwifery context and philosophy ...