Attitudes of maternity care providers toward regional centralisation of vaginal breech birth: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore maternity care providers' attitudes toward regional centralisation of vaginal breech birth (VBB) care and gather their recommendations for maintaining clinical proficiency.

Design

Exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis.

Participants

10 hospital-based maternity care professionals (nine obstetricians and one clinical midwife), purposively sampled to represent experience and institutional diversity.

Setting

10 hospital maternity units in a metropolitan region of the Netherlands.Key themes describing provider attitudes towards two proposed models of centralised care (mobile breech team, designated referral centre) and alternative strategies.

Results

Three core themes emerged: (1) proficiency

SUBMITTER: Luiting-Wagenaar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12815159 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature