Diogo Ayres-de-Campos, Frank Louwen, Victoria Vivilaki, Chiara Benedetto, Neena Modi, Miroslaw Wielgos, Melania-Elena Pop Tudose, Susanna Timonen, Marlene Reyns, Branka Yli, Pernilla Stenback, Inês Nunes, Burcu Yurtsal, Christophe Vayssière, Georges-Emmanuel Roth, Maria Jonsson, Petra Bakker, Enrico Lopriore, Stefan Verlohren, Bo Jacobsson
Substandard or disrespectful care during labour should be of serious concern for healthcare professionals, as it can affect one of the most important events in a woman's life. Substandard care refers to the use of interventions that are not considered best-practice, to the inadequate execution of interventions, to situations where best-practice interventions are withheld from patients, or there is lack of adequate informed consent. Disrespectful care refers to forms of verbal and non-verbal communication that affect patients' dignity, individuality, privacy, intimacy, or personal beliefs...
February 29, 2024: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology