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. 2020 Oct 28;10(10):e039098. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039098

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Indications for performing caesarean section (CS) among women who gave birth at Hawassa University Referral Hospital, Ethiopia, 2018–2019. Failure to progress means prolonged labour, cervical arrest and failed induction; fetal compromise means fetal distress, cord prolapse and intrauterine growth restriction; obstructed labour means cephalopelvic disproportion, macrosomia and unspecified disproportions; malpresentation means transverse, oblique or brow; others include post-term pregnancy, premature rupture of membrane, multiple pregnancies and polyhydramnios/oligohydramnios. APH, antepartum haemorrhage.