Additional Literature on Promoting Physiologic Labour and Birth

Respectful Maternity Care

Cantor, A. G., Jungbauer, R. M., Skelly, A. C., Hart, E. L., Jorda, K., Davis-O’Reilly, C., Caughey, A. B., & Tilden, E. L. (2024). Respectful Maternity Care: Dissemination and Implementation of Perinatal Safety Culture To Improve Equitable Maternal Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US).
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Promoting Vaginal Birth

Seijmonsbergen-Schermers, A. E., van den Akker, T., Rydahl, E., Beeckman, K., Bogaerts, A., Binfa, L., Frith, L., Gross, M. M., Misselwitz, B., Hálfdánsdóttir, B., Daly, D., Corcoran, P., Calleja-Agius, J., Calleja, N., Gatt, M., Vika Nilsen, A. B., Declercq, E., Gissler, M., Heino, A., Lindgren, H., … de Jonge, A. (2020). Variations in use of childbirth interventions in 13 high-income countries: A multinational cross-sectional study. PLoS medicine, 17(5), e1003103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003103
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Smith, V., Gallagher, L., Carroll, M., Hannon, K., & Begley, C. (2019). Antenatal and intrapartum interventions for reducing caesarean section, promoting vaginal birth, and reducing fear of childbirth: An overview of Systematic Reviews. PLOS ONE, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224313
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Models of Maternity Care 

Wallace, J., Hoehn-Velasco, L., Tilden, E., et al. (2024). An alternative model of maternity care for low-risk birth: Maternal and neonatal outcomes utilizing the midwifery-based birth center model. Health Services Research, 59(1), e14222. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14222
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