Quality indicators - Standard population of low risk nullipara *) - 2002-2005, 4202 Odense

  1. Hospital: Odense 2. County (hospitals) 3. County (residents) 4. Denmark
n % n % n % n %
All Deliveries 4044 100.0 5482 100.0 5699 100.0 75386 100.0
Emergency caesarean section 539 13.3 746 13.6 760 13.3 9092 12.1
Vacuumextraction/forceps 581 14.4 873 15.9 902 15.8 12897 17.1
Episiotomy 908 22.5 1057 19.3 1121 19.7 11487 15.2
Rupture of sphincter ani 239 5.9 319 5.8 330 5.8 3961 5.3
Epidural analgesia 632 15.6 859 15.7 867 15.2 14233 18.9
Natural delivery 1334 33.0 1947 35.5 2044 35.9 29941 39.7
Uncomplicated delivery 2128 52.6 2950 53.8 3063 53.7 42712 56.7
Admittance to NICU for less than 24 hours 67 1.7 74 1.3 75 1.3 1693 2.2
Admittance to NICU for more than 24 hours 160 4.0 201 3.7 202 3.5 3123 4.1
Admittance to NICU - ventilator treatment 8 0.2 8 0.1 6 0.1 132 0.2
Admittance to NICU - CPAP treatment 79 2.0 91 1.7 92 1.6 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