Sustaining Quality Midwifery Care in a Pandemic and Beyond

Overview

Journal Midwifery

Specialties Gynecology & Obstetrics
Nursing

Date 2020 Jun 3

PMID 32485502

Citations 54

Authors

Mary J Renfrew

Helen Cheyne

Justine Craig

Elizabeth Duff

Fiona Dykes

Billie Hunter

Tina Lavender

Lesley Page

Mary Ross-Davie

Helen Spiby

Soo Downe

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