Sentence examples for labour assessment from inspiring English sources

to compare experiences with early labour assessment and support at home vs. by telephone.

Only the nature of the nursing or midwifery care in the labour assessment unit varied between groups; all other care in the labour assessment unit and labour ward was in accordance with usual hospital practices and policies.

Comparable numbers of women in both groups were sent home from the labour assessment unit on more than two occasions.

In all study sites the labour assessment units were the entry points for women who thought they were in labour.

Attending doctors were not explicitly informed of their patients' group assignments and were rarely present in labour assessment units.

To be eligible to participate the hospitals had to have a pre-existing, geographically distinct labour assessment unit and a spontaneous vaginal birth rate of 75% or less.

The in-labour assessments of pain seems to primarily reflect the sensory and affective dimensions, whereas recollection of pain mainly reflects the cognitive-evaluative aspects of pain [ 19].

There are a number of ways of measuring progress in labour including assessment of contractions, descent and position of the fetal head by abdominal palpation and assessment of cervical dilatation by vaginal examination (VE).

In all cases, where women were transferred to the operating theatre in the second stage of labour, an assessment was made to decide whether to attempt an OVD or to proceed to immediate CS.

A Treasury spokesman said last night it was legitimate for the government to include tax changes previously planned by Labour in the assessment of whether the coalition's tax, spending and welfare package was progressive.

"They are not out to please people," one swing voter told Ms Mattinson, and "that means they can just get on with it".Many in Labour share this assessment, citing the example of the Conservative Party's unsuccessful electoral campaigns in 2001 and 2005.