Quality indicators - Standard population of low risk nullipara *) - 2002-2005, 1401 Frederiksberg

  1. Hospital: Frederiksberg 2. County (hospitals) 3. County (residents) 4. Denmark
n % n % n % n %
All Deliveries 3424 100.0 16697 100.0 15730 100.0 75386 100.0
Emergency caesarean section 397 11.6 2134 12.8 1982 12.6 9092 12.1
Vacuumextraction/forceps 604 17.6 2607 15.6 2535 16.1 12897 17.1
Episiotomy 303 8.8 1907 11.4 1875 11.9 11487 15.2
Rupture of sphincter ani 157 4.6 775 4.6 679 4.3 3961 5.3
Epidural analgesia 198 5.8 3873 23.2 3502 22.3 14233 18.9
Natural delivery 1668 48.7 6765 40.5 6365 40.5 29941 39.7
Uncomplicated delivery 2143 62.6 10116 60.6 9476 60.2 42712 56.7
Admittance to NICU for less than 24 hours 19 0.6 329 2.0 279 1.8 1693 2.2
Admittance to NICU for more than 24 hours 76 2.2 415 2.5 404 2.6 3123 4.1
Admittance to NICU - ventilator treatment 12 0.4 53 0.3 48 0.3 132 0.2
Admittance to NICU - CPAP treatment 43 1.3 327 2.0 289 1.8 1405 1.9

*) Healthy pregnant nulliparaous women (no medical diseases including gestational diabetes and isoimmunization),
spontaneous onset of labour at term (>= 37 weeks), singleton, vertex presentation
Source: National Board of Health, Medical Birth Register