Outcomes of cesarean deliveries in a Palestinian governmental hospital : a prospective quantitative study

Abstract

Researchers in this study reviewed the medical records of all pregnant women admitted to give birth, to be observed or treated for pregnancy complications or complaining of signs of abortion/miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy including postpartum women with complications within seven days after giving birth. The data was collected daily for 3 consecutive months as part of a multi-country study on maternal and neonatal near-miss using the WHO standard form (Individual Form HRP A65661). They reviewed a total of 1,583 record. After excluding multiple births, a total of 1209 (77.6%) women gave birth; 916 (75.7%) vaginal birth and 293 (24.2%) CD. Researchers analyzed the data with IBM SPSS Statistics (version 20). The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the American University of Beirut and Birzeit Universities.