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. 2016 Dec 5;2016(12):CD012449. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012449
# Searches
1 Perinatal Care/
2 Obstetric Nursing/
3 Delivery, Obstetric/
4 Labor, Obstetric/
5 Parturition/
6 Home Childbirth/
7 Natural Childbirth/
8 or/1‐7
9 Social Support/
10 8 and 9
11 Doulas/
12 (doula or doulas or obstetric nursing).ti,ab,kf.
13 ((childbirth? or birth? or labor or laboring or labour or labouring or intrapartum) adj6 (support* or companion* or coach*)).ti,ab,kf.
14 (((presence or present or attend* or accompan*) adj3 (family member? or friend? or spouse? or partner? or unskilled)) and (childbirth? or birth? or labor or labour)).ti,ab,kf.
15 (((presence or present or attend* or accompan*) adj3 (midwife or midwives or midwifery or nurse)) and (childbirth? or birth? or labor or labour)).ti,ab,kf.
16 or/11‐15
17 10 or 16
18 limit 17 to "qualitative (best balance of sensitivity and specificity)"
19 qualitative research/
20 17 and 19
21 18 or 20