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Abstract
Free-standing facilities that provide prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal care and usually incorporate family-centered maternity care concepts and practices.
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19 entry terms
- Birth Centers
- Birth Center
- Birthing Center
- Center, Birth
- Center, Birthing
- Centers, Birth
- Centers, Birthing
- Birth Center, Free Standing
- Birthing Centers, Free-Standing
- Free Standing Birthing Center
- Free-Standing Birth Centers
- Birth Center, Free-Standing
- Birth Centers, Free-Standing
- Birthing Center, Free-Standing
- Birthing Centers, Free Standing
- Free Standing Birth Centers
- Free-Standing Birth Center
- Free-Standing Birthing Center
- Free-Standing Birthing Centers
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
note entry term BIRTHING CENTERS, FREE-STANDING: do not confuse with BIRTHING CENTERS, HOSPITAL see DELIVERY ROOMS; check also tags PREGNANCY, and INFANT, NEWBORN
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Birthing Centers. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016550. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016550
- Birthing Centers. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthing_center
- Birthing Centers. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1752787