Skip to main content

Table 2 Data extraction

From: (Update of a) systematic review on the impact of elective early term (< 39th gestational week) caesarean sections on maternal and neonatal health - a protocol

Methods

Study type: RCT, cohort study

Setting: academic hospital, general clinic…

Recruitment period:

Participants

Exclusion criteria:

Characteristics: age, ethnicity, BMI, parity, previous caesarean, smoking status, marital status, maternal disease and indication for caesarean

Included patients:

Drop outs:

Time points

Time point of caesarean section:

Outcomes

Primary outcome: neonatal death, neonatal intensive care unit admission and maternal death

Secondary outcome:

Neonatal: intensive care unit length of stay, hospitalization, respiratory morbidity, RDS, TTN, pneumothorax, hypoglycemia, Apgar Score, hyperbilirubinemia needing phototherapy, birth weight and near miss

Maternal: hysterectomy, bleeding needing transfusion near miss and adverse events