Exploring the effect of hospital admission on contraction patterns and labour outcomes using women's perceptions of events.
OBJECTIVE: this study investigated the phenomenon of spontaneous labour contractions becoming less frequent on admission to hospital, which is observed anecdotally but is not evident in the literature. Anxiety in response to hospitalisation has been proposed to be responsible by initiating the bioch...
| Publicado en: | Midwifery Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 242 - 253 |
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| Formato: | forms research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jun2009
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |