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Do Hospitals with Family‐centered Maternity Care Policies Have Lower Intervention Rates?
Author(s) -
Lumley Judith,
Davey Brian A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1987.tb01474.x
Subject(s) - maternity care , intervention (counseling) , medicine , oxytocin , nursing , family medicine , health care , economic growth , economics
An independent survey of family‐centered maternity care policies in the hospitals of a large Australian city was used to identify two groups of hospitals at the extreme ends of the range. A comparison of the two groups with respect to their use of induction of labor, oxytocin, and operative delivery could detect no differences between them.