Episiotomy rates from eleven developing countries.
Episiotomy rates from eleven developing countries.
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十一个发展中国家的会阴切开术率。
DOI:
10.1016/j.ijgo.2005.07.013
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发表时间:
2005
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通讯作者:
Althabe,F
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作者:
Kropp,N;Hartwell,T;Althabe,F
Episiotomy; Evidence-based practice; Maternal health data extracted from routine labor and delivery logbooks or from labor and delivery records. A site refers to an investigative team reporting data from 1 or more countries participating in the Global Network. Episiotomy rates are reported both by site and by mean rates and ranges across sites. Site responses included data from 1 to 13 hospitals per country, but 2 sites reported data from more than 1 country. Fig. 1 shows that episiotomy rates among nulliparas were higher than 90%(mean, 93%; range, 91%—100%) in all countries except Zambia. In general, reported episiotomy rates for all vaginal births are lower than for nulliparous only, but are as high as 80% in Brazil and higher than 20% in all countries (mean, 44%; range, 23%—80%) except Zambia, which reported a lower rate for nulliparous (6.9%) than for all vaginal births (8.5%). However, data from Zambia were available for only 1 hospital. The data presented in this report were obtained from selected hospitals participating in funded clinical research studies, and thus cannot be generalized. However, they illustrate the widespread use of routine episiotomy in developing countries and confirm the high rates observed in Latin America [3], in contradiction to the evidence questioning its efficacy. Published data on episiotomy rates for Tibet, India, Zambia, and Congo are not readily available. Unnecessary episiotomies increase the risk of morbidity, including posterior perineal trau-