Association of Recorded Estimated Fetal Weight and Cesarean Delivery in Attempted Vaginal Delivery at Term.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between documentation of estimated fetal weight, and its value, with cesarean delivery.

Methods

This was a secondary analysis of a multicenter observational cohort of 115,502 deliveries from 2008 to 2011. Data were abstracted by trained and certified study personnel. We included women at 37 weeks of gestation or greater attempting vaginal delivery with live, nonanomalous, singleton, vertex fetuses and no history of cesarean delivery. Rates and odds ratios (ORs) were calculated for women with ultrasonography or clinical estimated fetal weight compared with women without documentation of estimated fetal weight. Further subgroup analyses were performed for estimated fetal weight categories (less than 3,500, 3,500-3,999, and 4,000 g or great

SUBMITTER: Froehlich RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4993665 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature