Table 7.
Selective versus Routine episiotomy in Obstetric hospitals and General hospitals: maternal outcomes (weighted)
| Characteristics | Obstetric hospitals (4564) | General hospitals (914) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Routine episiotomy (689) | Selective episiotomy (3875) | P | Routine episiotomy (664) | Selective episiotomy (250) | P | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Severe perineal laceration | 1 | 0.21 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 2 | 0.25 | 1 | 0.14 | 0.76 |
| Term labor | 200 | 29.14 | 1361 | 35.12 | < 0.05 | 174 | 26.21 | 101 | 40.37 | < 0.05 |
| Augment | 229 | 33.27 | 841 | 21.70 | < 0.05 | 94 | 14.12 | 65 | 26.2 | < 0.05 |
| Doula | 40 | 5.89 | 2540 | 65.54 | < 0.05 | 87 | 13.03 | 81 | 32.65 | < 0.05 |
| Meconium | 55 | 8.05 | 275 | 7.08 | 0.37 | 41 | 6.09 | 9 | 3.51 | 0.12 |
| Placenta accreta | 14 | 2 | 83 | 2.15 | 0.80 | 11 | 1.58 | 5 | 1.91 | 0.74 |
| Incompletely uterine rupture | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.18 | 0.27 | 1 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0.54 |
| Episiotomy | 488 | 70.96 | 1226 | 31.64 | < 0.05 | 619 | 93.09 | 158 | 63.27 | < 0.05 |
| Postpartum hemorrhage | 21 | 2.99 | 61 | 1.56 | < 0.05 | 27 | 4.06 | 7 | 2.94 | 0.43 |
| Transfusion | 3 | 0.42 | 12 | 0.31 | 0.66 | 4 | 0.55 | 2 | 0.86 | 0.59 |
| Puerperal infection | 2 | 0.29 | 19 | 0.49 | 0.47 | 1 | 0.10 | 1 | 0.29 | 0.50 |