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Care in the third stage of labour

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This chapter discusses my involvement in research concerning care in the third stage of labour, leading up to the Bristol third-stage trial (Prendiville et al., 1988), and its aftermath. Although the perspective is personal, I hope my experience of how decisions about research priorities were arrived at, about which research methods were used, and about the interface between research and policy and practice, has wider relevance for researchers with different backgrounds, and for areas other than the third stage of labour.

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  1. Nursing Research Unit, King’s College, London, UK

    Sarah Robinson (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

  2. School of Nursing Studies, Health Care Research Unit, Manchester College of Midwifery and Nursing, University of Manchester, UK

    Ann M. Thomson (Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Director) (Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Director)

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Elbourne, D. (1995). Care in the third stage of labour. In: Robinson, S., Thomson, A.M. (eds) Midwives, Research and Childbirth. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6956-9_9

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