Labor Scale Versus WHO Partograph in the Management of Labor

Summary

This study aims to compare the novel labour scale with the traditional WHO partograph in the management of spontaneous labour in primigravida in terms of maternal and neonatal outcomes

Timeline

Start

2015-07

Primary completion

2016-06

Completion

2016-06

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper Women managed with labor scale had significantly lower rate of cesarean deliveries than women managed with the partograph arm (3.6% versus 18.2%, P=0.03). PMID 28787749 ↗

Publications

• Background Shazly SA, Embaby LH, Ali SS. The labour scale--assessment of the validity of a novel labour chart: a pilot study. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2014 Aug;54(4):322-6. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12209. Epub 2014 May 17.
• Background Menacker F, Hamilton BE. Recent trends in cesarean delivery in the United States. NCHS Data Brief. 2010 Mar;(35):1-8.
• Background Villar J, Valladares E, Wojdyla D, Zavaleta N, Carroli G, Velazco A, Shah A, Campodonico L, Bataglia V, Faundes A, Langer A, Narvaez A, Donner A, Romero M, Reynoso S, de Padua KS, Giordano D, Kublickas M, Acosta A; WHO 2005 global survey on maternal and perinatal health research group. Caesarean delivery rates and pregnancy outcomes: the 2005 WHO global survey on maternal and perinatal health in Latin America. Lancet. 2006 Jun 3;367(9525):1819-29. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68704-7.
• Background Liu S, Liston RM, Joseph KS, Heaman M, Sauve R, Kramer MS; Maternal Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System. Maternal mortality and severe morbidity associated with low-risk planned cesarean delivery versus planned vaginal delivery at term. CMAJ. 2007 Feb 13;176(4):455-60. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.060870.
• Background Kjaergaard H, Olsen J, Ottesen B, Dykes AK. Incidence and outcomes of dystocia in the active phase of labor in term nulliparous women with spontaneous labor onset. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2009;88(4):402-7. doi: 10.1080/00016340902811001.
• Background Gifford DS, Morton SC, Fiske M, Keesey J, Keeler E, Kahn KL. Lack of progress in labor as a reason for cesarean. Obstet Gynecol. 2000 Apr;95(4):589-95. doi: 10.1016/s0029-7844(99)00575-x.
• Background Lavender T, Hart A, Smyth RM. Effect of partogram use on outcomes for women in spontaneous labour at term. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Oct 8;(4):CD005461. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005461.pub2.
• Background National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (UK). Intrapartum Care: Care of Healthy Women and Their Babies During Childbirth. London: RCOG Press; 2007 Sep. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK49388/
• Background Amer-Wahlin I, Hellsten C, Noren H, Hagberg H, Herbst A, Kjellmer I, Lilja H, Lindoff C, Mansson M, Martensson L, Olofsson P, Sundstrom A, Marsal K. Cardiotocography only versus cardiotocography plus ST analysis of fetal electrocardiogram for intrapartum fetal monitoring: a Swedish randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2001 Aug 18;358(9281):534-8. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)05703-8.
• Tolba SM, Ali SS, Mohammed AM, Michael AK, Abbas AM, Nassr AA, Shazly SA. Management of Spontaneous Labor in Primigravidae: Labor Scale versus WHO Partograph (SLiP Trial) Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Perinatol. 2018 Jan;35(1):48-54. doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1605575. Epub 2017 Aug 8.

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