Table 2.

Results from a linear probability model where the outcome is the receipt of an episiotomy

Variable	B (SE)
Entry year	−0.006 (0.0005)*
Quarterly time trend	−0.003 (0.0000)*
Physician‐level Cesarean delivery rate	0.061 (0.0038)*
Hospital episiotomy rate	0.260 (0.0020)*
Patient age	−0.005 (0.0001)*
Patient asian	0.044 (0.0025)*
Patient black	−0.085 (0.0013)*
Patient white	0.017 (0.0009)*
Patient uninsured	−0.066 (0.0029)*
Patient Medicaid	−0.056 (0.0014)*
Patient private	0.025 (0.0007)*
Patient prior Cesarean delivery	0.039 (0.0016)*
Macrosomia	0.070 (0.0025)*
Uterine scarring	0.186 (0.0158)*
Operative delivery	0.303 (0.0013)*
Metro county	−0.003 (0.0017)
Interclass correlation coefficient	0.08
N	1 658 327

Note: Hospital fixed effects not shown. A coefficient of 0.005 corresponds to a marginal effect of 0.5 percentage points.

^*Significant at the 1% level.