Key indicators influencing management of prolonged second stage labour by midwives in freestanding birth centres: Results from an ethnographic interview study.

CONCLUSION: These findings can inform future robust multivariate evaluation of factors, including but not limited to time, in guidelines for management of second stage of labour. Optimal management may require formal consideration of more than just time and parity. Our findings also suggest the need for evaluation of how structural issues involving hospital privileges for midwives and relationships between birth centre and hospital staff affect the well-being of childbearing families. PMID: 32434683 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32434683?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - May 17, 2020 Category: Midwifery Authors: Faulk KA, Niemczyk NA Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research

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