title: Patients transferred in labour from general-practitioner maternity units.
abstract: Two hundred and one patients transferred in labour from general-practitioner maternity units to the consultant unit in West Berkshire are analyzed. Ways in which such transfers at a critical stage in pregnancy may be reduced are discussed.
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006771:Hospitals, Maternity; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D009775:Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications