Midwifery units
Place of Birth and Concepts of Wellbeing: An Analysis from Two Ethnographic Studies of Midwifery Units in England
... alongside midwifery units that aimed to explore professionals’ experiences of working in or alongside these units, and women’s and their birth partners’ experiences of planning and giving birth in ...
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Duration and urgency of transfer in births planned at home and in freestanding midwifery units in England: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study
... Citation: Rowe, R., Townend, J., Brocklehurst, P., Knight, M., Macfarlane, A. J., McCourt, C., Newburn, M., Redshaw, M., Sandall, J., Silverton, L. and Hollowell, J. (2013). Duration and urgency of transfer in births ...
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Barriers to women's access to alongside midwifery units in England
... these units were presented as a ‘home-like’ rather than a medical ...medical. Units’ close proximity to the Obstetric Unit may have a greater impact on AMU staff decisions to (not) admit women to the unit, ...
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Place of Birth and Concepts of Wellbeing: An Analysis from Two Ethnographic Studies of Midwifery Units in England
... (Alongside Midwifery Unit – AMU) or a freestanding unit away from an obstetric unit (Freestanding Midwifery Unit – ...FMU). Midwifery units have been designed and intended specifically as ...
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Are freestanding midwifery units a safe alternative to obstetric units for low risk, primiparous childbirth? An analysis of effect differences by parity in a matched cohort study
... To counterbalance the predominantly technological and medical approach in OU settings, alternative birth settings such as freestanding midwifery units (FMUs) have been introduced, providing women with a ...
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Duration and urgency of transfer in births planned at home and in freestanding midwifery units in England: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study
... midwifery units although some studies of transfers from midwifery units give some indication of the incidence of complications necessitating urgent ...
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The UK Midwifery Study System (UKMidSS): a programme of work to establish a research infrastructure to carry out national studies of uncommon conditions and events in midwifery units
... context midwifery-led care during labour and birth is increasingly ...a midwifery-led set- ting is associated with a reduced risk of labour and birth interventions, including augmentation, epidural/spinal ...
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Evaluating Midwifery Units (EMU): a prospective cohort study of freestanding midwifery units in New South Wales, Australia
... freestanding units studied have a strong collaborative relationship with their tertiary referral units and women and mid- wives are encouraged to err on the side of caution and transfer antenatally whenever ...
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Duration and urgency of transfer in births planned at home and in freestanding midwifery units in England: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study
... freestanding midwifery units there were no significant differences in adverse perinatal outcomes compared with planned birth in an obstetric unit; and that for planned home births, adverse perinatal ...
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Organising safe and sustainable care in alongside midwifery units: Findings from an organisational ethnographic study
... midwife-led units in the community or on a hospital site’ (Department of Health ...that midwifery units – both AMUs and freestanding units (FMUs) - provide safe care for babies while also ...
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An ethnographic organisational study of alongside midwifery units: a follow-on study from the Birthplace in England programme - Scientific Summary
... Alongside midwifery units (AMUs) are a relatively novel hybrid organisational form consisting of separate units providing midwife-led care to low-risk women adjacent to maternity units run by ...
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An ethnographic organisational study of alongside midwifery units: a follow-on study from the Birthplace in England programme - Full Report
... I mean all the Pinards have been taken away and put on the side. Now actually they’re coming back because the keen midwives say no no, we need to learn the skill. But there are midwives here qualified who don’t know how ...
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Mapping midwifery and obstetric units in England
... in midwifery units (up from 5% to 14% over the past 6 years) has occurred almost 370 exclusively in AMUs, rather than ...midwife-led units (FMUs) compared with 53 in 376 April ...new units ...
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What makes alongside midwifery-led units work? Lessons from a national research project
... relationships between staff in different clinical areas and maintain a skill mix of expertise in normal and high-risk birth. They were cautious about how to approach this to ensure there were sufficiently skilled and ...
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A comparison of intrapartum interventions and adverse outcomes by parity in planned freestanding midwifery unit and alongside midwifery unit births: secondary analysis of ‘low risk’ births in the birthplace in England cohort
... a midwifery-led setting was associated with a reduced risk of interventions compared with planned birth in an ob- stetric unit (OU) and extended the guidance to cover dif- ferences in outcomes between alongside ...
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Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies: the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study
... freestanding midwifery units, 43/51 (84%) of alongside midwifery units, and a sample of 36 obstetric units ...obstetric units, five did not agree to participate and were replaced ...
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Is “Empowerment” A Trickle-Down Effect of The Afghanistan Midwifery Education Program?
... the midwifery profession has improved the decision making and leadership skills of women not only at the household level, but also in the clinical and community ...
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An exploratory study to develop a practical ethical framework for reproductive health research
... Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Patient Safety and Health Quality Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Provid[r] ...
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Choice, Risk, and Moral Judgment: Using Discourse Analysis to Identify the Moral Component of Midwives’ Discourses
... and midwifery practice in the UK: doctor-led obstetric units with all the medical facilities for high risk births; midwife-led units, located in a hospital with access to back-up medical facilities ...
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"Do you want fries with that?": the McDonaldization of university education — some critical reflections on nursing higher education
... and midwifery courses within the Australian higher education sector, like other professional degrees, is also experiencing significant internal and external discipline-oriented chal- ...and midwifery across ...
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