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Finding midwifery in administrative data systems.

Diers D

Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut 06536, USA. Donna.Diers@yale.edu

Nurse-midwifery has accomplished remarkable clinical, policy, and political achievements using specially-collected data. Today, midwifery practice data can be found in existing administrative data systems: birth registration, hospital data depositories, and claims files. Issues in finding midwifery as practice and profession in these data systems are discussed. Improving the integrity of data that reveal midwives as caregivers should be a priority.

Published 5 March 2007 in J Midwifery Womens Health, 52(2): 98-105.
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