Analysis of caesarean sections using Robson 10-group classification system in a university hospital in eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse caesarean section (CS) using Robson 10-group classification system in an Ethiopian university hospital.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

A university hospital in eastern, Ethiopia.

Participants

980 women who underwent CS from January 2016 to April 2017.

Main outcome

Robson groups (1-10-based on gestational age, fetal presentation, number of fetus, onset of labour and history of CS) and indications for CS.

Results

Robson group 3 (multiparous women with single cephalic full-term pregnancy in spontaneous labour with no history of CS), group 5 (multiparous women with single cephalic full-term pregnancy with history of CS) and group 1 (single cephalic nulliparous women full-term pregnancy in spontaneous labour) were the major

SUBMITTER: Tura AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5892782 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature