TY - JOUR AU - Wiegers, Therese A. AU - Hukkelhoven, Chantal WPM PY - 2010 DA - 2010/12/09 TI - The role of hospital midwives in the Netherlands JO - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth SP - 80 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Most midwives in the Netherlands work in primary care where they are the lead professionals providing care to women with 'normal' or uncomplicated pregnancies, while some midwives work in hospitals ("clinical midwives"). The actual involvement of midwives in maternity care in hospitals is unknown, because in all statistics births in secondary care are registered as births assisted by gynaecologists. The aim of this study is to gain insight in the involvement of midwives with births in secondary care, under supervision of a gynaecologist. This is done using data from the PRN (The Netherlands Perinatal Registry), a voluntary registration of births in the Netherlands. The PRN covers 97% to 99% of all births taking place under responsibility of a gynaecologist. SN - 1471-2393 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-10-80 DO - 10.1186/1471-2393-10-80 ID - Wiegers2010 ER -