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Hospital's home‐style birth centre defeats critics
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1983.tb136146.x
Subject(s) - style (visual arts) , reputation , citation , home birth , psychology , medicine , library science , political science , law , art , computer science , literature , genetics , pregnancy , biology , childbirth
When the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne opened the Family Birth Centre in October, 1979, many doctors and nurses were vocal in their disapproval of the Centre's home‐style birth programme and the departure from traditional labour wards.