Table 1.
Delayed Cord Clamping for Healthy Newborns by Facility Characteristics, Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care 2018
| No. of Hospitals Responding to “How Many Healthy Newborns at Your Hospital Have Their Umbilical Cord Clamped More Than 1 Minute After Birth?” | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facility Characteristic | Most (80% or More) | Many (50–79%) | Some (20–49%) | Few (0–19%) | Total |
| Overall | 1,020 (50.0) | 419 (20.5) | 292 (14.3) | 311 (15.2) | 2,042 |
| Type | |||||
| Government or military | 40 (44.0) | 19 (20.9) | 11 (12.1) | 21 (23.1) | 91 |
| Nonprofit | 813 (51.9) | 326 (20.8) | 220 (14.0) | 207 (13.2) | 1,566 |
| Private | 167 (43.4) | 74 (19.2) | 61 (15.8) | 83 (21.6) | 385 |
| Teaching hospital | |||||
| Yes | 698 (49.5) | 300 (21.3) | 195 (13.8) | 218 (15.5) | 1,411 |
| No | 322 (51.0) | 119 (18.9) | 97 (15.4) | 93 (14.7) | 631 |
| Baby-friendly designation* | |||||
| Yes | 265 (52.7) | 106 (21.1) | 63 (12.5) | 69 (13.7) | 503 |
| No | 755 (49.1) | 313 (20.3) | 229 (14.9) | 242 (15.7) | 1,539 |
| Annual birth volume | |||||
| Less than 500 | 381 (53.2) | 135 (18.9) | 89 (12.4) | 111 (15.5) | 716 |
| 500–999 | 220 (50.5) | 100 (22.9) | 59 (13.5) | 57 (13.1) | 436 |
| 1,000–1,999 | 212 (47.1) | 95 (21.1) | 65 (14.4) | 78 (17.3) | 450 |
| 2,000–4,999 | 181 (46.4) | 81 (20.8) | 73 (18.7) | 55 (14.1) | 390 |
| 5,000 or more | 26 (52.0) | 8 (16.0) | 6 (12.0) | 10 (20.0) | 50 |
| Cesarean birth rate (%)† | |||||
| Less than 25 | 244 (61.0) | 74 (18.5) | 46 (11.5) | 36 (9.0) | 400 |
| 25 to less than 30 | 321 (56.3) | 102 (17.9) | 74 (13.0) | 73 (12.8) | 570 |
| 30 to less than 35 | 263 (47.0) | 135 (24.2) | 75 (13.4) | 86 (15.4) | 559 |
| 35 or more | 188 (37.1) | 108 (21.3) | 96 (18.9) | 115 (22.7) | 507 |
Data are n (%) or n.
*
Hospitals reported whether they were designated “baby-friendly” as part of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.5
†
Proportion of cesarean births among live births. Six hospitals missing cesarean birth data were excluded from the cesarean birth rate analysis.