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The ‘birth plan’ experience
Author(s) -
EKEOCHA C. E. O.,
JACKSON P.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1985.tb01055.x
Subject(s) - plan (archaeology) , labour ward , medicine , family medicine , nursing , obstetrics , pregnancy , geography , genetics , archaeology , biology
Summary. All antenatal patients booked for hospital confinement in Huddersfield have been offered a ‘birth plan’ on which to indicate their wishes regarding labour ward procedures. The first 100 plans have been analysed and the information supplemented by a questionnaire answered by the women in the puerperium.