Table 1.
Type of births in each obstetric clinic in the Capital Region of Denmark during 2000–2009, with the number and percentages of spontaneous births, acute caesarean sections after spontaneous onset of labour, births after induction of labour and elective caesarean sections
| Obstetric clinics | Births per clinic | Non-elective births (81%) |
Elective births (19%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spontaneous births | Per cent | Acute caesarean | Per cent | Induced births | Per cent | Elective caesarean | Per cent | ||
| Rigshospitalet | 35.657 | 19.144 | 54 | 5.740 | 16 | 6.345 | 18 | 4.428 | 12 |
| Hvidovre | 53.300 | 39.335 | 74 | 7.264 | 14 | 2.375 | 4 | 4.326 | 8 |
| Frederiksberg | 17.751 | 13.784 | 78 | 1.794 | 10 | 1.266 | 7 | 907 | 5 |
| Gentofte | 21.988 | 14.216 | 65 | 2.863 | 13 | 3.349 | 15 | 1.560 | 7 |
| Glostrup | 22.737 | 15.972 | 70 | 2.883 | 13 | 2.808 | 12 | 1.074 | 5 |
| Herlev | 23.967 | 17.352 | 72 | 2.800 | 12 | 2.680 | 11 | 1.135 | 5 |
| Hillerød | 35.890 | 23.209 | 65 | 4.653 | 13 | 5.133 | 14 | 2.895 | 8 |
| All seven clinics | 211.290 | 143.012 | 68 | 27.997 | 13 | 23.956 | 11 | 16.325 | 8 |