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A Global Reference For Caesarean Section Rates (C‐Model): A Multicountry Cross‐Sectional Study, J. P. Souza, A. P. Betran, A. Dumont, B De Mucio, Marleen Temmerman
A Global Reference For Caesarean Section Rates (C‐Model): A Multicountry Cross‐Sectional Study, J. P. Souza, A. P. Betran, A. Dumont, B De Mucio, Marleen Temmerman
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, East Africa
Objective: To generate a global reference for caesarean section (CS) rates at health facilities. Design Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Health facilities from 43 countries. Population/Sample Thirty eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four women giving birth from 22 countries for model building and 10 045 875 women giving birth from 43 countries for model testing.
Methods: We hypothesised that mathematical models could determine the relationship between clinical-obstetric characteristics and CS. These models generated probabilities of CS that could be compared with the observed CS rates. We devised a three-step approach to generate the global benchmark of CS rates at health facilities: …