Temporal Trends in Late Preterm and Early Term Birth Rates in 6 High-Income Countries in North America and Europe and Association With Clinician-Initiated Obstetric Interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinicians have been urged to delay the use of obstetric interventions (eg, labor induction, cesarean delivery) until 39 weeks or later in the absence of maternal or fetal indications for intervention.

Objective

To describe recent trends in late preterm and early term birth rates in 6 high-income countries and assess association with use of clinician-initiated obstetric interventions.

Design

Retrospective analysis of singleton live births from 2006 to the latest available year (ranging from 2010 to 2015) in Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

Exposures

Use of clinician-initiated obstetric intervention (either labor induction or prelabor cesarean delivery) during delivery.

Main outcomes and measures

Annual country-s

SUBMITTER: Richards JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5318207 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature