The influence of the attending midwife on the occurrence of episiotomy: A retrospective cohort study

CONCLUSION: This study shows that individual factors of clinical midwives influence the rate of episiotomy. Predictors for an episiotomy were the number of years since graduation and place of bachelor education. This shows that continuous training of clinical midwives could contribute to reducing the number of unnecessary episiotomies. Since suspected fetal distress is the only evidence based indication to perform an episiotomy, there is room for improvement given the variation in the number of episiotomies performed for maternal indication.PMID:37453396 | DOI:10.1016/j.midw.2023.103773
Source: Midwifery - Category: Midwifery Authors: Source Type: research