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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Midwifery Womens Health. 2020 Apr 14;65(5):609–620. doi: 10.1111/jmwh.13104

Table 2.

Labor Process Variables Describing the Sample of 24,729 Vaginal Births and the Composition of Each Labor Phenotype Class and Rate of Postpartum Hemorrhage

Analytic Samplea Class 1 Spontaneous:
Early Admission
Class 2 Spontaneous:
Active Admission
Class 3 Induction:
Moderate Duration
Admission
Class 4 Spontaneous:
Prolonged Second
Stage
Class 5 Induction:
Prolonged
Complicated
Admission
Distribution of class membership, n (%) 24,729 (100) 11,168 (45.1) 3077 (12.4) 7485 (30.3) 1796 (7.3) 1203 (4.9)
Postpartum hemorrhage rate,b n (%) 1,167 (4.7) 420 (3.8) 120 (3.9) 341 (4.6) 143 (8.0) 143 (11.9)
Labor process variables
Spontaneous labor, n (%) 15,493 (62.6) 10,902 (97) 2983 (99) 0 (0) 1324 (75) 284 (24)
≥3 methods needed for labor induction,c n (%) 882 (5.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 514 (7) 51 (3) 317 (31)
Neuroaxial analgesia, n (%) 20,087 (82.2) 9488 (85) 1272 (45) 6479 (86) 1700 (96) 1148 (96)
Intrauterine pressure catheter, n (%) 4770 (19.3) 1783 (16) 17 (1) 1645 (22) 572 (32) 753 (62)
Artificial rupture of membranes, n (%) 16,416 (66.4) 6378 (58) 1571 (59) 6577 (89) 960 (56) 930 (78)
Fever and/or intraamniotic infection, n (%) 819 (3.3) 298 (3) 17 (1) 64 (1) 253 (14) 187 (15)
Magnesium sulfate use, n (%) 404 (1.6) 124 (1) 15 (1) 152 (2) 31 (2) 82 (7)
Having both episiotomy and lacerations, n (%) 7925 (32.0) 3429 (31) 677 (22) 2225 (30) 1072 (60) 522 (43)
Instrument-assisted vaginal birth, n (%) 2096 (8.5) 679 (6) 113 (4) 475 (6) 599 (34) 230 (19)
Shoulder dystocia, n (%) 423 (1.7) 172 (2) 19 (1) 127 (2) 55 (3) 50 (4)
Admission until birth, mean (SD), h 9.2 (6.9) 7.5 (1.6) 2.8 (2.2) 10.2 (5.0) 13.3 (5.2) 26.2 (13.1)
Cervical dilatation on admission, mean (SD), cm 3.5 (2.1) 3.5 (1.3) 7.3 (1.6) 2.4 (1.2) 3.0 (1.7) 1.3 (0.9)
Oxytocin duration, mean (SD), h 3.7 (4.5) 2.0 (2.5) 0.3 (1.1) 4.1 (3.0) 3.9 (4.2) 13.1 (8.4)
Number of cervical examinations, mean (SD) 7.5 (3.0) 7.5 (2.6) 4.8 (1.6) 7.5 (2.4) 9.3 (3.2) 12.6 (3.9)
Full dilation duration, mean (SD), h 0.8 (0.9) 0.6 (0.5) 0.5 (0.6) 0.5 (0.5) 2.9 (0.9) 1.3 (0.9)
Third stage of labor, mean (SD), min 5.4 (3.9) 5.3 (3.6) 5.1 (4.2) 5.1 (3.6) 6.4 (4.8) 6.2 (4.5)
a

Missing data: duration of admission (n = 102), cervical dilatation on admission (n = 758), duration of oxytocin (n = 433), duration of second stage (n = 2021), number of cervical examinations (n = 489), artificial rupture of membranes (n = 704), instrument-assisted vaginal birth (n = 803), medications for labor induction (n = 121), laceration or episiotomy (n = 1).

b

Postpartum hemorrhage rate is a composite of diagnosis code from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and estimated blood loss over 500 mL on birth record.

C

Methods and procedures included any of the following within cases coded for induced labor only: artificial rupture of membranes, misoprostol or prostaglandin El agonist, mechanical dilator, prostaglandin E2 agonist synthetic oxytocin.