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Women’s perspectives of decision-making for labour and birth: a qualitative antenatal-postnatal paired interview study
Erin White, Anna Davies, Andrew Demetri, Sheelagh McGuinness, Gemma Clayton, Abigail Fraser, Sonia Barnfield, Danya Bakhbakhi, Emma Claire Anderson, Katherine Birchenall, Rachel Miller, Christy Burden, Abi Merriel, Carol Kingdon

BMJ Open Jun 2025, 15 (6) e096171; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-096171
Out-of-hospital births and the experiences of emergency ambulance clinicians and birthing parents: a scoping review of the literature
Michella Hill, Alecka Miles, Belinda Flanagan, Sara Hansen, Brennen Mills, Luke Hopper

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e086967; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086967
Exploring views and experiences of childbirth-related perineal trauma: a qualitative study protocol for developing a wound management tool and care pathway
Laura Jones, Amy Delicate, Susan Waigwa, Victoria Hodgetts Morton, R Katie Morris, Jane Whitehurst, Sarah Hillman

BMJ Open Apr 2025, 15 (4) e088248; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088248
Women’s perceptions of medicalised pregnancy and childbirth: an exploratory sequential mixed-method protocol study
Saeedeh Alizadeh, Roghaiyeh Nourizadeh, Eesa Mohammadi, Abouali Vedadhir, Esmat Mehrabi, Parvin Sarbakhsh, Fatemeh Abbasalizadeh

BMJ Open Mar 2025, 15 (3) e095152; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095152
Evaluation of childbirth readiness and its associated factors and consequences in pregnant women referring to health centers in Tabriz, Iran and providing strategies to promote childbirth readiness: a sequential explanatory mixed method study protocol
Zohreh Alizadeh-Dibazari, Fatemeh Abbasalizadeh, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, Mojgan Mirghafourvand

BMJ Open Oct 2024, 14 (10) e087038; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087038
Childbirth Acquired Perineal Trauma study (CHAPTER): a UK prospective cohort study protocol
Victoria Hodgetts Morton, Rebecca Man, Rita Perry, Terry Hughes, Susan Tohill, Christine MacArthur, Laura Magill, R Katie Morris

BMJ Open May 2024, 14 (5) e086724; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086724

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