2.2. Data collection
2.2.1. Document collection
National (UK and NL) and
international public maternity care documents (i.e., guidelines,
protocols, and position papers) were prospectively collected from
maternity care and service-user organisations between February 2020 and
December 2020 (Table 1). Our initial plan was to collect documents until
September 2020, however, due to the second wave of COVID-19, we felt it
would be beneficial to continue data collection, which then ended in
December 2020. We chose to focus on fifteen key organisations from
September 2020 onwards, due to resource limitations. The fifteen
organisations were identified to be those which had been the most
influential on maternity service provision during the first wave of the
pandemic. The list of key organisations was agreed with the ASPIRE
Collaborative Group, comprising stakeholders from professional, service
user, and policy backgrounds.
A framework of key safety and personalisation criteria was developed
based on the expert opinion of the ASPIRE Collaborative Group
(Supplementary File 1). Data were then extracted and mapped to the
framework. From the 391 collected documents, 246 had data of interest
for this analysis. In this manuscript the documents are indicated with
the organisation name and document number (e.g., organisation_document
number).
Table 1 Organisations that documents were collected (abbreviation). * =
key organisation, data from Sept 2020.