TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chalmers,Beverley
TI  - Family-centred perinatal care: improving pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care 
T2  - Cambridge medicine
SN  - 9781316627952 (pbk.) :
AV  - RG627 .C467 2017
U1  - 618.3206 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Newborn infants
KW  - Medical care
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Since childbirth became a medicalized - and usually hospitalized - event a century ago, women's and families' psychosocial needs have been relegated to a somewhat peripheral role within the clinically focussed hierarchy of medical care. This text reinstates psychosocial issues as a primary focus of care, together with clinical excellence. Family-centred care is a familiar phrase in today's maternity services, with professional guidelines and hospital policies including the term in their care protocols; however, few definitions, and no specific standards, for family-centred care exist. While all caregivers and care services are likely to define their care as sensitive to women's needs, and family-centred, the actual implementation of a family-centred approach - despite it being a current fashion in care - is still inadequate. This book clearly defines family-centred perinatal care, and outlines how truly family-centred care can, and should, be implemented, and how, and where, this has been done"--Provided by publisher
ER  -