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Rising rates of obstetric interventions: exploring the determinants of induction of labour

Author(s) -

Tracy Humphrey,

Janet Tucker

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdn112

Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , caesarean section , logistic regression , case mix index , pregnancy , obstructed labour , public health , obstetrics , demography , pediatrics , nursing , genetics , sociology , biology

Rising rates of obstetric interventions in the UK are a concern for health-care providers and the public. Our aims were to identify the socio-demographic and clinical factors (case mix) predictive of one of the most common obstetric interventions, induction of labour (IOL), and quantify the extent to which observed rates can be explained by case mix factors.

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