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Table 5 Selective versus Routine episiotomy in Secondary hospitals and Tertiary hospitals: maternal outcomes (weighted)

From: Selective versus routine use of episiotomy for vaginal births in Shanghai hospitals, China: a comparison of policies

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

<ā€‰0.05

Term labor

83

24.25

630

30.72

<ā€‰0.05

291

28.87

832

40.09

<ā€‰0.05

Doula

104

30.28

1287

62.86

<ā€‰0.05

23

2.28

1334

64.27

<ā€‰0.05

Meconium

18

4.86

52

2.65

0.03

79

7.85

229

11.03

<ā€‰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

<ā€‰0.05

784

77.69

586

28.24

<ā€‰0.05

Postpartum hemorrhage

12

3.55

36

1.75

<ā€‰0.05

35

3.50

32

1.54

<ā€‰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