Trends in labor induction and perinatal outcomes: A decade comparison before and after the ARRIVE trial
Wing Lam Tsui, Dah-Ching Ding · 2026
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Wing Lam Tsui and Dah-Ching Ding wrote, in two thousand twenty-six, on birth care at their hospital ten years apart. The pair of years, two thousand thirteen and two thousand twenty-three, brackets the ARRIVE trial. That big trial changed how doctors view a planned start of labor at 39 weeks for low-risk births.
Their past-files study held 600 women: 316 from the first year and 284 from the last. Planned cesarean births and some other groups were left out. Mean age at birth rose from 29.73 years to 31.29 years. The share of births with a planned start more than doubled, from 19.94 per cent to 50.70 per cent. Cesarean rates held steady. But births with the aid of a vacuum cup rose, and care unit stays for new babes rose too. A planned start was tied on its own to low Apgar scores after birth.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wing Lam Tsui, Dah-Ching Ding |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |