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- Title
Midwifery Continuity of Care Offers Benefits, but Not Widely Adopted.
- Authors
Larkin, Howard D.
- Abstract
In the most common approach, small groups of midwives provide care for designated patients, known as caseload midwifery or midwifery group practice. Global Health Compared with other models of childbirth care, midwife-led continuity of care models have been shown to reduce rates of preterm birth and fetal loss for women at low and mixed risk in a small number of high-income countries, according to a review in I PLOS Global Public Health i .
- Subjects
MATERNAL health services; MIDWIFERY; CONTINUUM of care
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2022, Vol 328, Issue 19, p1897
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2022.20720