Table 5.
Selective versus Routine episiotomy in Secondary hospitals and Tertiary hospitals: maternal outcomes (weighted)
| Characteristics | Secondary hospitals (2393) | Tertiary hospitals(3085) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Routine episiotomy(343) | Selective episiotomy (2050) | P | Routine episiotomy(1010) | Routine episiotomy(2075) | P | |||||
| Severe perineal laceration | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.65 | 4 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | < 0.05 |
| Term labor | 83 | 24.25 | 630 | 30.72 | < 0.05 | 291 | 28.87 | 832 | 40.09 | < 0.05 |
| Doula | 104 | 30.28 | 1287 | 62.86 | < 0.05 | 23 | 2.28 | 1334 | 64.27 | < 0.05 |
| Meconium | 18 | 4.86 | 52 | 2.65 | 0.03 | 79 | 7.85 | 229 | 11.03 | < 0.05 |
| Placenta accreta | 4 | 1.27 | 38 | 1.83 | 0.46 | 20 | 1.98 | 51 | 2.44 | 0.42 |
| Incompletely uterine rupture | 1 | 0.16 | 3 | 0.13 | 0.89 | 1 | 0.05 | 4 | 0.20 | 0.30 |
| Episiotomy | 323 | 94.01 | 798 | 38.93 | < 0.05 | 784 | 77.69 | 586 | 28.24 | < 0.05 |
| Postpartum hemorrhage | 12 | 3.55 | 36 | 1.75 | < 0.05 | 35 | 3.50 | 32 | 1.54 | < 0.05 |
| Transfusion | 1 | 0.07 | 5 | 0.26 | 0.50 | 6 | 0.62 | 9 | 0.43 | 0.47 |
| Puerperal infection | 1 | 0.20 | 11 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 2 | 0.19 | 10 | 0.46 | 0.24 |