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  • Factors influencing midwives’ use of an evidenced based Normal Birth Guideline

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    Toohill, Jocelyn
    Sidebotham, Mary
    Gamble, Jennifer
    Fenwick, Jennifer
    Creedy, Debra K
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Gamble, Jenny A.
    Creedy, Debra K.
    Toohill, Jocelyn
    Fenwick, Jennifer
    Sidebotham, Mary
    Year published
    2017
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    Problem or issue • Rates of elective and unplanned caesarean section continue to increase in high income countries. • Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to promote and support normal birth but are rarely evaluated. What is already known The Queensland Normal Birth Guideline was developed in consultation with stakeholders and disseminated to public and private hospitals and released in 2012.1 Impact of the Guideline on practice has not been investigated. What this paper adds • Although most midwives (90%) were aware of the guideline, only 71% reported that it routinely guided practice. • Being employed in a public ...
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    Problem or issue • Rates of elective and unplanned caesarean section continue to increase in high income countries. • Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to promote and support normal birth but are rarely evaluated. What is already known The Queensland Normal Birth Guideline was developed in consultation with stakeholders and disseminated to public and private hospitals and released in 2012.1 Impact of the Guideline on practice has not been investigated. What this paper adds • Although most midwives (90%) were aware of the guideline, only 71% reported that it routinely guided practice. • Being employed in a public hospital caseload model, and having a strong belief in evidenced based practice predicted guideline use.
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    Journal Title
    Women and Birth
    Volume
    30
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2017.03.008
    Copyright Statement
    Copyright 2017 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Midwifery
    Medical and Health Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/356058
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