Caesarean sections in teaching hospitals: systematic review and meta-analysis of hospitals in 22 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study is to determine the odds of caesarean section in all births in teaching hospitals as compared with non-teaching hospitals.

Setting

Over 3600 teaching and non-teaching hospitals in 22 countries. We searched CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, PubMed, sciELO, Scopus and Web of Science from the beginning of records until May 2020.

Participants

Women at birth. Over 18.5 million births.

Intervention

Caesarean section.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome measures are the adjusted OR of caesarean section in a variety of teaching hospital comparisons. The secondary outcome is the crude OR of caesarean section in a variety of teaching hospital comparisons.

Results

In adjusted analyses, we found that universi

SUBMITTER: Hoxha I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7845681 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature