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Shared decision making

A critical analysis of a tripartite clinical decision involving a student, midwife and client

Midwives often make clinical decisions with missing or ambiguous information, requiring skill and a degree of managed risk consideration (NHS, 2022) or trade off, as per Sherif et al's (1965) degrees...

Sharing the decision about VBAC: introducing the ARCS-V motivational learning model

The World Health Organization (WHO) (2015a) estimates that in the UK, 249−291% of births are by caesarean section, despite evidence illustrating that caesarean section rates greater than 10% fail to...

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