ArticleThe Journal of perinatal education2013
Fetal monitoring: creating a culture of safety with informed choice.
Article in The Journal of perinatal education, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Revisiting the Value of Admission Cardiotocography in Term Pregnancies: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Pooled it
- Prospective User Perceptions and Acceptability of a Wearable Fetal Heart Monitor: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Predicting Intrapartum Acidemia: A Review of Approaches Based on Fetal Heart Rate.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Noninvasive monitoring of fetal tissue oxygenation level using time-domain NIRS.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Article
- Antenatal Noninvasive Fetal Electrocardiography: A Literature Review.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2024Review
- Prediction of fetal RR intervals from maternal factors using machine learning models.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Maternal and neonatal outcomes following waterbirth: a cohort study of 17 530 waterbirths and 17 530 propensity score-matched land births.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2022Article
- Expert perspectives on essential parameters to monitor during childbirth in low resource settings: a Delphi study in sub-Saharan Africa.Reproductive health · 2019Article
- A half century of electronic fetal monitoring and bioethics: silence speaks louder than words.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2017Review
- The Ethics of Teaching Physicians Electronic Fetal Monitoring: And Now for the Rest of the Story.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2017Article
- Perpetuating Myths, Fables, and Fairy Tales: A Half Century of Electronic Fetal Monitoring.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2015Article
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Abstract
The dominant culture in labor and birth is the medical model, not the midwifery model of woman-centered care. Consensus among professional and governmental groups is that, based on the evidence, intermittent auscultation is safer to use in healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies than electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). Barriers impact the laboring woman's ability to give informed choice regarding fetal monitoring. Lack of informed choice denies a woman her right to be in control of her birth experience, and is in opposition to a woman's right to autonomy and self-determination.
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