Labor Induction at 39 Weeks Compared with Expectant Management in Low-Risk Parous Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our objective was to compare outcomes among low-risk parous women who underwent elective labor induction at 39 weeks versus expectant management.

Study design

This is a secondary analysis of an observational cohort of 115,502 mother-infant dyads who delivered at 25 hospitals between 2008 and 2011. The inclusion criteria for this analysis were low-risk parous women with nonanomalous singletons with at least one prior vaginal delivery after 20 weeks, who delivered at ≥39^0/7 weeks. Women who electively induced between 39^0/7 and 39^6/7 weeks were compared with women who expectantly managed ≥39^0/7 weeks. The primary outcome for this analysis was cesarean delivery. Secondary outcomes were composites of maternal adverse outcome a

SUBMITTER: Wagner SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7947018 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature