Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5566134 | Women and Birth | 2016 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Clinicians felt protected and reassured by the structured documentation and communication process and valued keeping women engaged in hospital care. This, in turn, protected women's access to maternity care. However, the process could not guarantee favourable responses from other clinicians subsequently involved in the woman's care. Ongoing discussions of risk, perceived by women and some midwives to be pressure to consent to recommended care, were still evident. These limitations may have been attributable to the absence of agreed criteria for initiating the MCP process and fragmented care. Varying awareness and use of the process also diminished women's access to it.
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Authors
Bec Jenkinson, Sue Kruske, Helen Stapleton, Michael Beckmann, Maree Reynolds, Sue Kildea,