Women and Birth
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 117-120 , September 2010

Advanced midwifery practice or advancing midwifery practice?

  • Rachel Smith
    • ,
  • Nicky Leap
    • ,
  • Caroline Homer

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, UTS, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 9514 4834; fax: +61 2 9514 4835.

Received 28 September 2009 ,Revised 11 November 2009 ,Accepted 12 November 2009.

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PII: S1871-5192(09)00088-2

doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2009.11.002

Women and Birth
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 117-120 , September 2010

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