Efficacy and safety of induction of labour in case of pregnancy termination or intrauterin

A retrospective cohort study of 408 women undergoing labour induction for pregnancy termination or intrauterine fetal death at a single centre in Lille, France between 2007 and 2018. The dataset compares outcomes for 136 women with a history of previous caesarean deliveries against 272 control patients. The study was conducted by Yasmine Hamoud of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille and published on Papers with Code.

Use Cases

• Compare vaginal delivery success rates within 24 hours between patient groups based on caesarean history.
• Assess the risk of uterine rupture based on the number of previous caesarean deliveries.
• Analyze the incidence of severe postpartum hemorrhage (>1 liter blood loss) in patients with a scarred uterus.
• Model the relationship between gestational age, induction method (misoprostol, oxytocin, dinoprostone), and delivery outcomes.

Strengths

• Includes a control group of 272 patients for comparative analysis.
• Reports specific, quantified primary outcomes: 83.5% success rate in the study group versus 92.6% in controls.
• Provides detailed complication rates, such as 3.7% uterine rupture in the study group, broken down by number of prior caesareans.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single centre in France, which may limit generalizability to other populations.

Provenance

Source

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille

Collection Method

Retrospective single-centre study.

Time Range

2007 to 2018

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Lille, France