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The definitive Maternity and Infant Care database from MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service)

Maternity and Infant Care is an important essential resource for academics and healthcare professionals involved in the care of women and infants. This unique database contains over 120,000 references with abstracts to journal articles from over 550 international English language journals, books, and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labor, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infant’s life. Database coverage is from the mid-1980s and approximately 1000 records are added to the database per month. The database also includes correspondence and commentary written in response to an article. Many of the records are assigned to one or more of 475 standard searches on key topics in order to provide fast retrieval, using either a code or a browsable index of topics. In addition there is an online thesaurus, keyword indexing and classification terms.

Key topics include:

-Hospital policies
-Healthcare professionals role
-Employment issues
-Ethical and professional issues
-International midwifery
-Sudden infant death and infant mortality
-Neonatal care and intensive care
-Social and psychological aspects
-Antenatal health issues
-Screening
-HIV
-Complementary therapies
-Health education

The database represents a powerful research tool for users around the world. Journals indexed in the database are international from the USA and Canada, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, UK, Africa and the Middle East. In addition grey literature is covered such as pamphlets, reports, web journals, press releases, newspaper articles and chapters in books. URLs are available for linking to electronic documents.

• Updated monthly

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
Maternity and Infant Care Database 1971	Monthly	Internet	Released	Ovid
Maternity and Infant Care Database 1971+	Monthly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter

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