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Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births
BACKGROUND: The impact of elective induction of labour at term on the increasing caesarean section (CS) rate is unclear. A Cochrane Systematic Review that concluded that elective induction was associated with a reduction in CS was based on trials that mostly reflect outdated obstetric care, or were...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27121614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-0869-0 |
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description | BACKGROUND: The impact of elective induction of labour at term on the increasing caesarean section (CS) rate is unclear. A Cochrane Systematic Review that concluded that elective induction was associated with a reduction in CS was based on trials that mostly reflect outdated obstetric care, or were flawed. The findings of other studies vary widely in the magnitude and direction of the relationship between elective induction and CS. This inconsistency may be due to the heterogeneity in the methods used to induce or augment labour, such that the relationship with CS is not constant across methods. METHODS: Using validated, routinely-collected data on all births in Victoria in 2000–2005, all singleton, cephalic, first births following uncomplicated pregnancies at 37–40 completed weeks’ gestation (‘standard primiparae’) were identified (n = 42,950). As well as comparing induced with non-induced labour, method of birth was compared between those women experiencing spontaneous labour without augmentation, and women undergoing each method of augmentation or induction using adjusted multinomial logistic regression. Proportions, chi-square tests, adjusted Relative Risk Ratios (aRRR) and 95 % confidence intervals are presented. RESULTS: Ten percent of “standard primiparae” had labour induced for no apparent medical indication. Women whose labour was induced were significantly more likely than those who laboured spontaneously to have a CS (26.5 and 12.5 % respectively (OR 2.54, 95 % CI 2.4, 2.7, p < 0.001). After adjustment for maternal age, epidural analgesia, birthweight, gestation, and public/private admission status, each method of induction or augmentation remained associated with a significant increase in the risk of CS (adjusted ORs range 1.48 to 4.13, p-values all <0.0001). Perinatal death did not differ by onset of labour. CONCLUSION: Induction of labour in medically uncomplicated nulliparous women at term carries a more than doubling of risk of emergency CS, compared with spontaneous labour, with no impact on perinatal mortality. All methods of induction and augmentation of labour were associated with an increase in the rate of CS. Women included in this study had no apparent medical indication for induction of labour or any complication of pregnancy, so the increase in CS was not due to identifiable underlying risk factors. These results suggest that, in the absence of direction from well-designed, contemporary RCTs, minimising unindicated inductions before 41 weeks’ gestation has the potential to reduce the rate of CS. |
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spelling | pubmed-48488202016-04-29 Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births Davey, Mary-Ann King, James BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: The impact of elective induction of labour at term on the increasing caesarean section (CS) rate is unclear. A Cochrane Systematic Review that concluded that elective induction was associated with a reduction in CS was based on trials that mostly reflect outdated obstetric care, or were flawed. The findings of other studies vary widely in the magnitude and direction of the relationship between elective induction and CS. This inconsistency may be due to the heterogeneity in the methods used to induce or augment labour, such that the relationship with CS is not constant across methods. METHODS: Using validated, routinely-collected data on all births in Victoria in 2000–2005, all singleton, cephalic, first births following uncomplicated pregnancies at 37–40 completed weeks’ gestation (‘standard primiparae’) were identified (n = 42,950). As well as comparing induced with non-induced labour, method of birth was compared between those women experiencing spontaneous labour without augmentation, and women undergoing each method of augmentation or induction using adjusted multinomial logistic regression. Proportions, chi-square tests, adjusted Relative Risk Ratios (aRRR) and 95 % confidence intervals are presented. RESULTS: Ten percent of “standard primiparae” had labour induced for no apparent medical indication. Women whose labour was induced were significantly more likely than those who laboured spontaneously to have a CS (26.5 and 12.5 % respectively (OR 2.54, 95 % CI 2.4, 2.7, p < 0.001). After adjustment for maternal age, epidural analgesia, birthweight, gestation, and public/private admission status, each method of induction or augmentation remained associated with a significant increase in the risk of CS (adjusted ORs range 1.48 to 4.13, p-values all <0.0001). Perinatal death did not differ by onset of labour. CONCLUSION: Induction of labour in medically uncomplicated nulliparous women at term carries a more than doubling of risk of emergency CS, compared with spontaneous labour, with no impact on perinatal mortality. All methods of induction and augmentation of labour were associated with an increase in the rate of CS. Women included in this study had no apparent medical indication for induction of labour or any complication of pregnancy, so the increase in CS was not due to identifiable underlying risk factors. These results suggest that, in the absence of direction from well-designed, contemporary RCTs, minimising unindicated inductions before 41 weeks’ gestation has the potential to reduce the rate of CS. BioMed Central 2016-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4848820/ /pubmed/27121614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-0869-0 Text en © Davey and King. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Davey, Mary-Ann King, James Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
title | Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
title_full | Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
title_fullStr | Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
title_full_unstemmed | Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
title_short | Caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
title_sort | caesarean section following induction of labour in uncomplicated first births- a population-based cross-sectional analysis of 42,950 births |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27121614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-0869-0 |
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