How do midwives facilitate women to give birth during physiological second stage of labour? A systematic review

• Maria Healy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maria.healy@qub.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-7285

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• Viola Nyman,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Research and Development, NU-Hospital Group, Trollhattan, Sweden, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Dale Spence,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• René H. J. Otten,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-8810

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• Corine J. Verhoeven

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maxima Medical Centre, Veldhoven, Netherlands, Division of Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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