A new study reports that the number of delivery complications in hospitals are higher during nights, holidays and weekends. Risk Analysis published a study " Clinical capital and the risk of maternal labour and delivery complications: Hospital scheduling, timing and cohort turnover effects, " reporting higher risk of delivery complications in hospitals during nights, holidays, weekends and in teaching hospitals. S.
Zahran and his team analysed data obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services, which included more than 2 million cases between 2005 to 2010. They focussed on women with single birth having gestation of more than 20 weeks, whose delivery was attended by a physician and had a normal labour onset. They examined the delivery complications including third- or fourth-degree perineal lacerations, unplanned hysterectomy, ruptured uterus, admission to ICU and…
