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Maternity & Infant Care

Brief Description:

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 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.

Dates of Coverage: Mid-1980s onwards
Frequency of Updates: Monthly
Record Type: Bibliographic citations with Abstracts
Number of Records: Over 120,000 references
Subjects Covered: Midwifery profession, pregnancy, labor, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infant’s life.

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