Midwifery
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The American Association of Birth Centers: history, membership, and current initiatives.

30 Aug 2009 The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) is a multidisciplinary membership organization dedicated to the birth center model of care. This article reviews the history, membership, and current policy initiatives of the AABC. The history of ... Read more...

Third stage of labour care for women at low risk of postpartum haemorrhage.

30 Aug 2009 In normal birth there should be a valid reason to interfere with normal processes. Yet, active management of third stage labor is being imposed on women who have no known risks of postpartum hemorrhage. This article examines the evidence from ... Read more...

The costs and benefits of nurse-midwifery education: model and application.

30 Aug 2009 To promote nurse-midwifery education, it is important for educators to know the value students bring to clinical training sites and academic institutions, the value nurse-midwifery graduates bring to taxpayers who help support nurse-midwifery ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Midwifery'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Targeted intervention reduces the Cesarean section rate] 8 Sep 2009
• The American Association of Birth Centers: history, membership, and current initiatives. 30 Aug 2009
• Third stage of labour care for women at low risk of postpartum haemorrhage. 30 Aug 2009
• The costs and benefits of nurse-midwifery education: model and application. 30 Aug 2009
• The past, present, and future of assessing continuing competency for midwives. 30 Aug 2009
• The world needs midwives now more than ever. 30 Aug 2009
• Do we scare because we care? 30 Aug 2009
• Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician. 29 Aug 2009
• The safety of home birth: is the evidence good enough? 29 Aug 2009
• Traditional health practitioners in South Africa. 22 Aug 2009
• "Someone's rooting for you": continuity, advocacy and street-level bureaucracy in UK maternal healthcare. 19 Aug 2009
• Evaluation of changes in postnatal care using the "Parents' Postnatal Sense of Security" instrument and an assessment of the instrument's reliability and validity. 10 Aug 2009
• Addressing the obesity epidemic: time for the maternity services to act now but what strategies should we use? 30 Jul 2009
• Managing polycystic ovary syndrome: a cognitive behavioral strategy. 30 Jul 2009
• Maternal history. 30 Jul 2009
• Medicines management. 30 Jul 2009
• A yardstick good practice. 30 Jul 2009
• The doctor's casebook--a process of discovery. 30 Jul 2009
• Referrals during labor in midwifery care. 30 Jul 2009
• Home births revisited: the continuing search for better evidence. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Midwifery'

Definition: The practice of assisting women in childbirth.

Descriptor UI: D008880

Alternative terms: Midwifery; Midwives; Midwife; Traditional Birth Attendant; Birth Attendant, Traditional; Birth Attendants, Traditional; Traditional Birth Attendants;

Related Mesh Headings: Home Childbirth; Nurse Midwives;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.478.676.416;

History Note: 66; was MIDWIVES 1963-65

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; check also tag PREGNANCY