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Guidelines not tramlines: the WHO safe childbirth checklist
John Tingle
Published Online:28 Mar 2016https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2016.25.6.344
Abstract
John Tingle discusses the safe childbirth checklist recently published by the World Health Organization as an example of the considerations involved in adopting, adapting and implementing a patient safety tool
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