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Duration and urgency of transfer in births planned at home and in freestanding midwifery units in England: secondary analysis of the birthplace national prospective cohort study
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BACKGROUND: In England, there is a policy of offering healthy women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of birth setting. Options may include home or a freestanding midwifery unit (FMU). Transfer rates from these settings are around 20%, and higher for nulliparous women. The duration of transfer is of interest because of the potential for delay in access to specialist care and is also of concern to women. We aimed to estimate the duration of transfer in births planned at home and in FMU...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1186/1471-2393-13-224
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National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme
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+ NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HSandDR) programme
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10/1008/43
Policy Research Programme, Department of Health
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 224
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-11-27
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1471-2393
- ISSN:
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1471-2393
- Source identifiers:
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441654
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- English
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- pubs:441654
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Rowe et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Rowe et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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