Background: Studies of planned home births attended by registered midwives have been
limited by incomplete data, nonrepresentative sampling, inadequate statistical power and the …

Objective To compare family physicians', obstetricians' and midwives' self‐reported practices,
attitudes and beliefs about central issues in childbirth. Design Mail‐out questionnaire. …

Objective Collaborative, interdisciplinary care models have the potential to improve maternity
care. Differing attitudes of maternity care providers may impede this process. We sought to …

Background: The number of physicians providing maternity care in Canada is decreasing,
and the rate of cesarean delivery is increasing. We evaluated the effect on perinatal outcomes …

The Collaboration for Maternal and Newborn Health, a multidisciplinary group of maternity
care providers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), received funding from Health …

Midwifery emerged as a self-regulated profession in British Columbia in the context of a 2-year
demonstration project beginning in 1998. The project evaluated accountability among …

Background: Current practice guidelines recommend active management of the third stage
of labor. We compared practices of three maternity care provider disciplines in management …

Most provinces in Canada now offer regulated midwifery, but the way services are delivered
across the country varies. The Canadian Midwifery Regulators Consortium has identified a …

Background Maternal and neonatal outcomes are influenced by the nature of antenatal care.
Standard pregnancy care is provided on an individual basis, with one-on-one …