title: 'Hands on' or 'hands off'.
abstract: This is a new standard series to supplement our Cochrane Corner and Research Unwrapped evidence series. The aim of Guideline commentary is to support you to critique and utilise newly published guidelines enabling translation of appropriate recommendations to practice. The objective is to scrutinise recent guidelines to encourage an understanding of the key issues, recommendations and midwifery practice implications.
authors.forename: Tracey
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D022125:Lacerations / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008880:Midwifery / Q000592:standards*; D010502:Perineum / Q000293:injuries*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy