Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

ABSTRACT 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 7
EVENTS LEADING TO THE MOVE FROM HOME TO HOSPITAL DELIVERIES 11
The Cranbrook report (1959) 11
The Peel report (1970) 14
The Short report (1980) 17
The Winterton report (1992) 19
The Cumberlege Report (1993) 23
Components of a woman centred service 25
Summary 27
CHAPTER 2: RISK PERCEPTION 28
CHAPTER OVERVIEW 28
INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS 28
RISK PERCEPTION IN APPLIED RESEARCH
Summary 42
CHAPTER 3: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE
CHOICE OF PLACE OF DELIVERY 46
Introduction 46
Rationale for undertaking a systematic review 47
Differences between systematic and narrative reviews 48
Table I: Difference between Traditional and Systematic Reviews 49
Critique of Systematic reviews 50
Methods 51
The search strategy 53
First stage 53
Table 2: Search terms used 54
Second stage 55
Inclusion Criteria 55
Table 3: Journals that were hand searched 56
Third stage 56
Box 1: Items used to assess the quality of the studies 57
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