Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To compare outcomes of planned home or freestanding midwifery unit (FMU) with obstetric unit births in high‐income countries. Methods We conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, case series, and case reports.
Carolina Herding +12 more
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Exploring adherence to the International Confederation of Midwives' Essential Competencies in Europe. [PDF]
Eur J MidwiferyValentini C +3 more
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The Case for a Pregnancy‐Specific Nicotine Policy
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims We aimed to evaluate the proposition that nicotine delivery by any means during pregnancy adversely affects the fetus and infant, review national policies on nicotine use in pregnancy across four high‐income countries and propose a coherent pregnancy‐specific nicotine policy framework.
Edwin A. Mitchell +2 more
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A Qualitative Exploratory Study of the Continuity of Midwifery Care for the Adolescent Pregnancy in Indonesia. [PDF]
Iran J Nurs Midwifery ResSusanti D +4 more
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A Mobilisation Protocol in the Management of Posterior Foetal Presentations: A Multicentre Observational Pilot Study. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Conesa-Ferrer MB +4 more
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Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan +3 more
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Historically informed quality improvement: applying historical insights from Black women's maternity care to contemporary health service redesign. [PDF]
Int J Qual Health CareCreese J +6 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Evaluation of a strategy developed to revise the scope of practice to recognize midwife specialists' competencies in South Africa. [PDF]
BMC NursTukisi KP, Jacobs W, Rensburg ZJV.
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Birth, EarlyView.Labor and delivery staff's personal experiences with birth are associated with their attitudes about clinical practice. We conducted a cross‐sectional survey of female labor and delivery staff employed at birthing hospitals in Arkansas. A total of 378 staff (physicians, nurses and midwives) from 29 facilities (of 33 birthing hospitals) participated in ...
Tanvangi Tiwari +6 more
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