“…A wide range of well-established online databases was used including Medline, Maternity and Infant Care, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews, Pubmed and Google Scholar. Some studies found had examined the routine policies and practices of normal birth worldwide (Maimbolwa et al, 1997;Festin et al, 2003;Turan et al, 2006;Harris et al, 2007;Danichevski et al, 2008;The SEA-ORCHID study group, 2008;Chalmers et al, 2009). In the Arab world, studies of hospital policies and practices for normal childbirth have begun to assess whether they are within EBP (Khayat and Campbell, 2000;Abdulsalam et al, 2004;Khalil et al, 2005;Wick et al, 2005;Hassan-Bitar and Wick, 2007;Sweidan et al, 2008;Khresheh et al, 2009).…”