Labouring Together: Collaborative Alliances in Maternity Care in Victoria, Australia
Watkins, Vanessa J. 2020, Labouring Together: Collaborative Alliances in Maternity Care in Victoria, Australia, Ph.D. thesis, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University.
Mixed-methods exploration of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and shared decision-making (SDM) in maternity care in Victoria, Australia revealed that effective IPC and SDM were not routinely conducted. Macro-level barriers identified included inadequate healthcare policy to support individual stakeholder autonomy, and the dominant discourses of risk avoidance and bureaucratic-style decision-making vetoed choice.
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