Developing quality indicators for assessing quality of birth centre care: a mixed- methods study
Abstract Background Birth centres are described as settings where women with uncomplicated pregnancies can give birth in a home-like environment assisted by midwives and maternity care assistants. If complications arise or threaten, the woman is referred to a maternity unit of a hospital where an obstetrician will take over responsibility. In the last decade, a number of new birth centres have been established in the Netherlands, based on the assumption that birth centres provide better quality of care since they offer a better opportunity for more integrated care than the existing system with... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2017) |
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Schlagwörter: | Quality indicators / Birthing centres / Structure and process assessment / Delphi method / The Netherlands / Gynecology and obstetrics / RG1-991 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26804026 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1439-9 |