3. Induction setting (start and waiting).
| STUDY | START (hospital or home: and type of unit (obstetric or midwife‐led)) | WAITING (hospital or home) |
| Augensen 1987 | Hospital "Women in group 1 (immediate induction) were then referred to the delivery department for induction" |
Not reported |
| Baev 2017 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Bergsjo 1989 | Hospital | Hospital (not explicitly stated that women in the induction group stayed in hospital after induction started). However authors reported that two women in the induction group (who waited up until a week for induction) stayed in hospital after randomisation, due to transport/distance issues). This suggests that some women waited at home. |
| Brane 2014 | Hospital (Swedish delivery unit) | Hospital |
| Breart 1982 | Unclear (in French) | Unclear (in French) |
| Chakravarti 2000 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Chanrachkul 2003 | Hospital | Hospital |
| Cohn 1992 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cole 1975 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Dyson 1987 | Hospital | Home and hospital: women who did not have a regular contractile pattern 45 minutes after induction gel was administered were allowed to go home; those who did were admitted to the hospital. |
| Egarter 1989 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Gelisen 2005 | Hospital | Hospital |
| Grobman 2018 | Not reported (A specific induction protocol was not mandated for women who underwent induction in either group). |
Not reported |
| Hannah 1992 | Hospital (community and tertiary) | Not reported, only reported that when induction was started, women were treated as outpatients in the hospital |
| Heimstad 2007 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Henry 1969 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Herabutya 1992 | Hospital | Home and hospital or either: women with a Bishop score > 6 stayed in hospital after the induction was performed, and sent to birthing ward; while those with a lower Bishop score were asked to go home and come in the next morning |
| James 2001 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Keulen 2019 | Primary care midwifery practices (n = 123) and hospitals (n = 45) (in the Netherlands, care is provided for women with normal risk pregnancies by midwives, and for pregnancies at increased risk by obstetricians or gynaecologists) | "all women in the 41 week induction group received obstetrician led intrapartum secondary care" |
| Martin 1978 | Hospital | Hospital |
| Martin 1989 | Hospital | Hospital |
| Miller 2015 | Hospital | Hospital |
| NICHHD 1994 | Hospital | Hospital |
| Nielsen 2005 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Ocon 1997 | Unclear (in Spanish) | Unclear (in Spanish) |
| Roach 1997 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Sahraoui 2005 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Sande 1983 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Sargunam 2019 | Hospital Not stated by authors, however implied by the trial inclusion criteria: "persistent contractions after overnight hospitalisation > 8 h" |
Not reported |
| Suikkari 1983 | Hospital | Not reported |
| Tylleskar 1979 | "Two health clinics" | Health clinic where labour was induced |
| Walker 2016 | Not reported: "In the induction group, local policies for induction of labor were followed". | Not reported |
| Wennerholm 2019 | Not reported | Not reported |
| Witter 1987 | Hospital | Not reported |