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The Attitudes of Canadian Maternity Care Practitioners Towards Labour and Birth: Many Differences but Important Similarities

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Collaborative, interdisciplinary care models have the potential to improve maternity care. Differing attitudes of maternity care providers may impede this process. We sought to examine the attitudes of Canadian maternity care practitioners towards labour and birth. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional web- and paper-based survey of 549 obstetricians, 897 family physicians (400 antepartum only, 497 intrapartum), 545 nurses, 400 …

Authors

Klein MC; Kaczorowski J; Hall WA; Fraser W; Liston RM; Eftekhary S; Brant R; Mâsse LC; Rosinski J; Mehrabadi A

Journal

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 827–840

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

September 2009

DOI

10.1016/s1701-2163(16)34301-8

ISSN

1701-2163