Research Article
Recent Clinical Characteristics of Labors Using Three Japanese Systems of Midwife-Led Primary Delivery Care
Table 2
Rate of transfers from midwife-led care to obstetric shared care in the 3 groups of the midwife-led primary delivery care systems.
| Birth place | Planned home birth | Planned hospital birth | | Midwives | Independent midwives | Independent midwives | Midwives belonging to our hospital | Total number | 123 | 88 | 467 | Transfers | | | | Total | 38 (31%) | 33 (38%) | 263 (56%) | Timing of transfers | | | | Before labor | 12 (9.8%) | 6 (6.8%) | 40 (8.6%) | First & second stage of delivery | 14 (11%) | 12 (14%) | 205 (44%) | Third stage of delivery | 9 (7.3%) | 13 (15%) | 15 (3.2%) | Neonate only | 3 (2.4%) | 2 (2.3%) | 3 (0.64%) | Nulliparous women | | | | Total | 32 | 21 | 313 | Transfers | 17 (53%) | 14 (67%) | 219 (70%) | Multiparous women | | | | Total | 91 | 67 | 154 | Transfers | 21 (23%) | 19 (22%) | 44 (27%) |
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p < 0.05 versus the group managed by midwives belonging to the hospital (hospital midwifery care).
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