The rhetoric of informed choice: perspectives from midwives on intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate midwives' attitudes, values and beliefs on the use of intrapartum fetal monitoring. DESIGN: Qualitative, semi-structured interviews. SUBJECTS AND SETTING: Fifty-eight registered midwives in two hospitals in the North of England. RESULTS: In this paper two main themes are di...

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Published in:Health Expectations Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 306 - 315
Main Authors: Hindley C, Thomson AM
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2005
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