[Table/Fig-4]:

Effect of epidural analgesia on mode of delivery

S. No.	Author	Year	No. of patients	Instrumental delivery	Cesarean section
1	Carli [36]	1993	1250	Higher
2	Thorp et al., [18]	1993	93	-	Higher
3	Bofill et al., [19]	1997	100	Higher	No difference
4	Halpren et al., [20]	1998	2369	Higher	No difference
5	Zimmer EZ et al., [21]	2000	847	Higher	Higher
6	Howell et al., [37]	2002	369	Higher	-
5	Barbara et al., [7]	2002	-	No difference	No difference
8	Sharma et al., [22]	2004	2703	Higher	No difference
9	Liu [23]	2004	2962	Higher	No difference
10	Sienko J et al., [25]	2005	1334	No difference	No difference
11	Anim Souman et al., [8]	2005	6664	Higher	No difference
12	Wu CY et al., [26]	2005	412	Higher	Lower
13	Shahram Nafisi [28]	2006	395	No difference	No difference
14	Liang [29]	2007	583	Higher	Higher
15	Bakhamees [38]	2007	861	Higher	No difference
16	Fyneface-Ogan et al., [16]	2009	50	-	No difference
17	Raja [30]	2009	156	Higher	-
18	Anim-Somuah et al., [32]	2011	9658	Higher	No difference
19	Mousa et al., [33]	2012	160	No difference	No difference
21	Present study	2014	120	No difference	No difference