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Cesarean delivery rate and staffing levels of the maternity unit

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  • Saad Zbiri
  • Patrick Rozenberg
  • François Goffinet
  • Carine Milcent

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Objective: To investigate whether staffing levels of maternity units affect prelabor urgent, elective, and intrapartum cesarean delivery rates. Methods: This population-based retrospective cohort study covers the deliveries of the 11 hospitals of a French perinatal network in 2008–2014 (N = 102 236). The independent variables were women’s demographic and medical characteristics as well as the type, organization, and staffing levels for obstetricians, anesthesiologists, and midwives of each maternity unit. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted with multilevel logistic models. Results: Overall, 23.9% of the women had cesarean deliveries (2.4% urgent before labor, 10% elective, and 11.5% intrapartum). Independently of individual- and hospital-level factors, the level of obstetricians, measured by the number of full-time equivalent persons (i.e., 35 working hours per week) per 100 deliveries, was negatively associated with intrapartum cesarean delivery (adjusted odds ratio, aOR 0.55, 95% confidence interval, CI 0.36–0.83, P-value = 0.005), and the level of midwives negatively associated with elective cesarean delivery (aOR 0.79, 95% CI 0.69–0.90, P-value

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  • Saad Zbiri & Patrick Rozenberg & François Goffinet & Carine Milcent, 2018. "Cesarean delivery rate and staffing levels of the maternity unit," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-14, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0207379
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207379
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