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WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections
BACKGROUND: Caesarean section rates continue to increase worldwide with uncertain medical consequences. Auditing and analysing caesarean section rates and other perinatal outcomes in a reliable and continuous manner is critical for understanding reasons caesarean section changes over time. METHODS:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19874598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-6-18 |
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author | Betrán, Ana P Gulmezoglu, A Metin Robson, Michael Merialdi, Mario Souza, João P Wojdyla, Daniel Widmer, Mariana Carroli, Guillermo Torloni, Maria R Langer, Ana Narváez, Alberto Velasco, Alejandro Faúndes, Anibal Acosta, Arnaldo Valladares, Eliette Romero, Mariana Zavaleta, Nelly Reynoso, Sofia Bataglia, Vicente |
author_facet | Betrán, Ana P Gulmezoglu, A Metin Robson, Michael Merialdi, Mario Souza, João P Wojdyla, Daniel Widmer, Mariana Carroli, Guillermo Torloni, Maria R Langer, Ana Narváez, Alberto Velasco, Alejandro Faúndes, Anibal Acosta, Arnaldo Valladares, Eliette Romero, Mariana Zavaleta, Nelly Reynoso, Sofia Bataglia, Vicente |
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description | BACKGROUND: Caesarean section rates continue to increase worldwide with uncertain medical consequences. Auditing and analysing caesarean section rates and other perinatal outcomes in a reliable and continuous manner is critical for understanding reasons caesarean section changes over time. METHODS: We analyzed data on 97,095 women delivering in 120 facilities in 8 countries, collected as part of the 2004-2005 Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America. The objective of this analysis was to test if the "10-group" or "Robson" classification could help identify which groups of women are contributing most to the high caesarean section rates in Latin America, and if it could provide information useful for health care providers in monitoring and planning effective actions to reduce these rates. RESULTS: The overall rate of caesarean section was 35.4%. Women with single cephalic pregnancy at term without previous caesarean section who entered into labour spontaneously (groups 1 and 3) represented 60% of the total obstetric population. Although women with a term singleton cephalic pregnancy with a previous caesarean section (group 5) represented only 11.4% of the obstetric population, this group was the largest contributor to the overall caesarean section rate (26.7% of all the caesarean sections). The second and third largest contributors to the overall caesarean section rate were nulliparous women with single cephalic pregnancy at term either in spontaneous labour (group 1) or induced or delivered by caesarean section before labour (group 2), which were responsible for 18.3% and 15.3% of all caesarean deliveries, respectively. CONCLUSION: The 10-group classification could be easily applied to a multicountry dataset without problems of inconsistencies or misclassification. Specific groups of women were clearly identified as the main contributors to the overall caesarean section rate. This classification could help health care providers to plan practical and effective actions targeting specific groups of women to improve maternal and perinatal care. |
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spelling | pubmed-27791752009-11-19 WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections Betrán, Ana P Gulmezoglu, A Metin Robson, Michael Merialdi, Mario Souza, João P Wojdyla, Daniel Widmer, Mariana Carroli, Guillermo Torloni, Maria R Langer, Ana Narváez, Alberto Velasco, Alejandro Faúndes, Anibal Acosta, Arnaldo Valladares, Eliette Romero, Mariana Zavaleta, Nelly Reynoso, Sofia Bataglia, Vicente Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: Caesarean section rates continue to increase worldwide with uncertain medical consequences. Auditing and analysing caesarean section rates and other perinatal outcomes in a reliable and continuous manner is critical for understanding reasons caesarean section changes over time. METHODS: We analyzed data on 97,095 women delivering in 120 facilities in 8 countries, collected as part of the 2004-2005 Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America. The objective of this analysis was to test if the "10-group" or "Robson" classification could help identify which groups of women are contributing most to the high caesarean section rates in Latin America, and if it could provide information useful for health care providers in monitoring and planning effective actions to reduce these rates. RESULTS: The overall rate of caesarean section was 35.4%. Women with single cephalic pregnancy at term without previous caesarean section who entered into labour spontaneously (groups 1 and 3) represented 60% of the total obstetric population. Although women with a term singleton cephalic pregnancy with a previous caesarean section (group 5) represented only 11.4% of the obstetric population, this group was the largest contributor to the overall caesarean section rate (26.7% of all the caesarean sections). The second and third largest contributors to the overall caesarean section rate were nulliparous women with single cephalic pregnancy at term either in spontaneous labour (group 1) or induced or delivered by caesarean section before labour (group 2), which were responsible for 18.3% and 15.3% of all caesarean deliveries, respectively. CONCLUSION: The 10-group classification could be easily applied to a multicountry dataset without problems of inconsistencies or misclassification. Specific groups of women were clearly identified as the main contributors to the overall caesarean section rate. This classification could help health care providers to plan practical and effective actions targeting specific groups of women to improve maternal and perinatal care. BioMed Central 2009-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2779175/ /pubmed/19874598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-6-18 Text en Copyright ©2009 Betrán et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Betrán, Ana P Gulmezoglu, A Metin Robson, Michael Merialdi, Mario Souza, João P Wojdyla, Daniel Widmer, Mariana Carroli, Guillermo Torloni, Maria R Langer, Ana Narváez, Alberto Velasco, Alejandro Faúndes, Anibal Acosta, Arnaldo Valladares, Eliette Romero, Mariana Zavaleta, Nelly Reynoso, Sofia Bataglia, Vicente WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections |
title | WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections |
title_full | WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections |
title_fullStr | WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections |
title_full_unstemmed | WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections |
title_short | WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean sections |
title_sort | who global survey on maternal and perinatal health in latin america: classifying caesarean sections |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19874598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-6-18 |
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