General methods for measuring and comparing medical interventions in childbirth: a framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The continue increase of interventions during labour in low risk population is a controversial issue of the current obstetric literature, given the lack of evidence demonstrating the benefits of unnecessary interventions for women or infants' health. This makes it important to have approaches to assess the burden of all medical interventions performed.

Methods

Exploiting the nature of childbirth intervention as a staged process, we proposed graphic representations allowing to generate alternative formulas for the simplest measures of the intervention intensity namely, the overall and type-specific treatment ratios. We applied the approach to quantify the change in interventions following a protocol termed Comprehensive Management (CM), using data from Robson class

SUBMITTER: Svelato A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7203888 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature