Women and Birth
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 10-21 , March 2010

Western Australian women's perceptions of the style and quality of midwifery postnatal care in hospital and at home

  • Jennifer Fenwick

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Centre for Midwifery, Family and Child Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9514 4086/+61 410479985.
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  • Janice Butt

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University of Technology, Coordinator Midwifery Education, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9266 2369.
    • ,
  • Satvinder Dhaliwal

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9266 2946.
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  • Yvonne Hauck

      Affiliations

    • School of Population Health M431, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 6488 1224; fax: +61 8 6488 1188.
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  • Virginia Schmied

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Received 7 April 2009 ,Revised 16 June 2009 ,Accepted 18 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2009.06.001

Women and Birth
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 10-21 , March 2010

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