Type of deliveries supported by Dutch clinical midwives

Objective: The number of clinical midwives in the Netherlands has substantially increased over the last twenty years, but their role in obstetric care is not clearly defined. Our aim was to identify the type of deliveries that are usually supported by clinical midwives and whether these changed over time. Design, setting, and participants: National data from the Netherlands Perinatal Registry from the years 2000 to 2016 (n = 2.999.411 deliveries) were used to divide all deliveries into classes using latent class analyses based on delivery characteristics. In the primary analyses, the identifie... Mehr ...