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We took a complete year of data (retrospective) and applied low risk
assessment criteria to identify those eligible for midwife led care
at the beginning of their pregnancy (people requesting epidural were
taken out and the usual high risk cases, were automatically
excluded). We looked at those who were low risk on admission to the
unit for labour and followed them through.
We wanted to identify proportions of women low risk at oneset of
labour and to follow them through to post natal period to see if they
remained so. This information was for a particular Trust so that they
could make a decison on whether to go for midwife led care or not.
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Dr. Marlene Sinclair
Senior Lecturer in Midwifery
Course Director P/Grad Dip/MSc Advanced Nursing/Midwifery
University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Newtownabbey
BT37 0QB
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Tel 02890 368118
Fax 02890 368208
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